Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church
Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 23 Sheridan Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Catholic congregations in the city.
23 Sheridan Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702Holy Cross Polish National 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 Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, nearly a quarter of the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Unemployment: 24.1% (13.5–34.8%)
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 28.9% (17.4–40.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Depression: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (5.2–20.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church
- Restored Church — 0.1 mi away
- Meade Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Puritan Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia De RestauraciÓN Unidos En Cristo Wb — 0.2 mi away
- Unity of NEPA — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Piedra Angular — 0.3 mi away
- St. Mark's Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.4 mi away
- Christian Assembly Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.4 mi away
- St. Anthony's Marionite Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.7 mi away
- St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. George Marionite Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
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