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Devotion to Mary through the rosary has long inspired the residents of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, a neighborhood of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. She even miraculously helped build the shrine that bears her name! ...read more
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St. Carlo Acutis, an example to follow!
Mireille Haj-Chahine
September 8, 2025
This young teenager has been declared a saint of the Church! He's not far from us, but is a saint of our time. ...read more
On September 7, 2025, Pope Leo XIV canonized two exemplary witnesses of the Christian faith: computer programmer Carlo Acutis and student and mountain climber Pier Giorgio Frassati. ...read more
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Carlo Acutis: A young saint to be. A friend in heaven!
Mireille Haj-Chahine
September 4, 2025
Carlo Acutis’s life bears witness to a path of clarity, a “Highway” to heaven, strewn with faith, prayer, and trust. All his life, Carlo Acutis traced this path, which led him to encounter Christ daily in the Eucharist and in the faces of the poor.  ...read more
AI and other digital technologies are here to stay: how might Pope Leo XIV explore the good that can come of them even as they resist the bad? ...read more
Pope Leo XIV is calling for deeper reflection on the “challenges [of AI] for the defence of human dignity, justice, and labour" What might some of those challenges be? ...read more
From the age of 17 until his death at 24, Frassati lived a purposeful, Christ-oriented life of prayer, service, and adventure. ...read more
We pray that through work, each person might find fulfillment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanized. ...read more
Nicholas Jesson reflects on the late pope's achievements on the journey to Christian unity and human fraternity. ...read more
On Divine Mercy Sunday, 27 April, 2025, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis' Secretary of State, presided over Mass and delivered the homily for the Second Day of the Novendiali and the Jubilee of Adolescents. ...read more