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Author of new ‘Mother Teresa’ book shares his encounters with the saint
Christina Lee Knauss, Catholic News Service
September 8, 2022
Jim Towey is one of the fortunate few who also got to know her as a friend. Towey, an attorney by trade who has also worked in government and academia over the years, first met Mother Teresa 37 years ago after he started volunteering at a soup kitchen run by the Missionaries of Charity, the ...read more
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New cardinals feel honored, humbled, ready to promote renewal of church
Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
August 29, 2022
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Becoming a member of the broad, unique body of the College of Cardinals is both a great honor and an invitation to help promote a renewal of the Catholic Church’s mission of evangelization, some new cardinals said. With 20 newly created cardinals representing 16 countries, and with the entire college of ...read more
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Syrian bishop: Aleppo facing ‘bombardment’ of poverty
Doreen Abi Raad, Catholic News Service
August 16, 2022
BEIRUT (CNS) — Aleppo, besieged and destroyed in Syria’s war, is calm now, but 11 years of war and the accompanying economic sanctions have left the city impoverished. “We don’t have any direct violence, armed groups or bombardments on or around the city since the end of 2017,” Chaldean Catholic Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo ...read more
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Good journalism has to be creative and promote communication that focuses on dialogue, intelligence and helping build active communities, said the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. Paolo Ruffini, the prefect, said the challenge of good journalism is to find new ways for a new kind of communication by “focusing ...read more
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Grammy-nominated musician Sarah Hart releases new Marian hymn
Katie Peterson, Catholic News Service
August 15, 2022
NOLENSVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — For Sarah Hart, writing a new hymn is always about pleasing God. “I do think, ‘God, I hope this is pleasing to you. I hope that this thing I’m doing is my prayer to you,'” she told the Tennessee Register, newspaper of the Diocese of Nashville. “Writing a song for me ...read more
From August 14 to August 17, 2022, five hundred Catholic women will gather at the Delta Hotel by Marriott Grand Okanagan Resort in Kelowna, BC for the 102nd Annual National Convention of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL). The theme for this year is Catholic and Living It! Speakers for the convention include Elizabeth Tomlin, a ...read more
When Fr. Christopher leads a group of students in Adoration, he prays for the Holy Spirit to come upon them – with dramatic results. ...read more
When Hayley and her friends get caught in a frightening storm while flying home from a mission trip, they turn to prayer. ...read more
Eric and his fiancée, Katherine, are getting ready to celebrate their wedding. Little do they know, God has some surprises in store for them! ...read more
There’s a great story of how a miracle inspired the feast of Corpus Christi. The only problem is, it isn’t true. Find out the true story of Corpus Christi. ...read more