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Saint of the Day: St. Robert of Molesmes

Inspiring Stories

Ronaldo baptism

Cerith Gardiner

One of the world’s greatest soccer players, Ronaldo, baptized at 46

Bérengère de Portzamparc

Father and daughter set Guinness record with France-sized heart

Italian National Basketball Team with Down Syndrome, European Champions, 2023

Cerith Gardiner

The incredible European basketball champions with Down syndrome

cancer, enfants, maladie, Mexique

Aleteia

Mexico: 38 children confirmed by bishop at cancer hospital

Screenshot The Chosen Walking on water scene

Cerith Gardiner

How ‘The Chosen’ reenacted Jesus walking on water

Deacon Paul Carris at Corpus Christi Church in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.

John Touhey

The 9/11 hero who became a permanent deacon (with slideshow)

Emergency workers attend person injured in World Trade Center attack

John Burger

Not once, but twice: How one man overcame living through hell

Café abuelos Vollpension

Adriana Bello

At this café, grandparents bake and young and old interact

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Francisco Veneto

Russian Satanist-turned-seminarian impresses Pope Francis

królowa Elżbieta II

Cerith Gardiner

Cleric reveals how Queen Elizabeth II’s last days were faith-focused

Harold Chilton at the piano with his grandaughter, age 3.

Cerith Gardiner

A joyful duet between a 100-year-old pianist and his great-grandchild

A cross formed by drones with lights in the sky above Budapest

Cécile Séveirac

Hungary honors St. Stephen with cross of light in the sky

A Polish couple wearing a wedding dress and a suit smile at the camera at World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon

Bérengère de Portzamparc

Honeymooners attend WYD in Lisbon … in wedding attire!

Pope Francis World Young Day vigil with young people in Tejo Park

Aleteia

Pope Francis calls bereaved mom of youth who died after WYD

Dwayne The Rock Johnson

Cerith Gardiner

The Rock shares two vital lessons he learned from his father

Glowing cross over railroad tracks

Cerith Gardiner

This glowing Crucifix appeared to rail worker before he was killed

Airliner flying in colorful sky

Cerith Gardiner

Son honors flight attendant mom, pilots her plane for first time

woman in crowd with anxiety

Cerith Gardiner

Priest offers a single word that can confront anxiety

Boy reads poem about sister with Down syndrome

Cerith Gardiner

Big brother’s poem to sister with Down syndrome melts hearts

Tonata Lolesio, Principal of Sacred Hearts School, with students as the school reopens.

John Touhey

After Maui fires, a Catholic school reopens and brings hope

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