Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church
Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 250 South 12th Street in Reading, PA 19602-2046. It is one of 144 churches in Reading, and one of 8 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
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250 South 12th Street, Reading, PA, 19602-2046Phone: (610) 779-4005 · Website: https://www.stmarystjoseph.net/
Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,107 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 33.2% (18.1–48.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.8%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (4.3–15.7%)
- Depression: 23.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.7–17.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Reading city is served by 66 churches — about one congregation for every 1,433 residents.
Churches near Saint Mary Roman Catholic Church
- First Century Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of Christ is Risen — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John's Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. James Chapel COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Hermanos Unidos en Cristo — 0.4 mi away
- St. Paul Lutheran Chruch — 0.4 mi away
- South 7th Street Christian Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Rehoboth Hispana — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Holy Rosary Church — 0.9 mi away
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