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Detroit TV personality Chuck Gaidica’s ‘breaking news’: He’s returned to the Church

November 15, 2022

Chuck Gaidica has been in the TV business for more than 40 years, telling the stories of Detroiters as a well-known figure in the community. But on a blustery fall evening at Holy Trinity Parish in Port Huron, the award-winning newsman reported on a story

November 14, 2022

The 51-year-old French actor and stand-up comedian Gad Elmaleh has recently shared some interesting stories about his conversion to the Catholic faith. Elmaleh, who was born in Morocco, has a large fan base, and is particularly appreciated in the Jewish community in France. He is also

Responding to God’s Call: A Priest, a Monk and a Religious Sister Reflect During National Vocations Awareness Week

November 8, 2022

It’s National Vocation Awareness Week, the weeklong period in the Catholic Church in the United States dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life through prayer and education. The practice began in 1976, likely tied to the dramatic decline in religious vocations in

This man was 9-years-old when he saw John Paul II get shot

October 21, 2022

Years after Saint John Paul II was shot in St. Peter’s Square, a witness from the front rows of the security barricades says that the now-canonized pope offers an example — and a challenge — of forgiveness for children who witness violence. For witnesses and

Aaron Judge reaches record-breaking season with Bible verse in hand

October 2, 2022

Standing tall at 6’7″. Aaron Judge is a man of great stature but even greater faith. The much admired New York Yankees slugger has been impressing baseball fans with his incredible performance this season, with a broken home-run record hopefully around the corner. However, the 30 year

Died: Brother Andrew, Who Smuggled Bibles into Communist Countries

September 29, 2022

Anne van der Bijl, a Dutch evangelical known to Christians worldwide as Brother Andrew, the man who smuggled Bibles into closed Communist countries, has died at the age of 94. Van der Bijl became famous as “God’s smuggler” when the first-person account of his missionary adventures—slipping

From professional tenor to priest, thanks to Chesterton and music

September 26, 2022

Eduardo Pérez Orenes is a tenor. His life has always been closely linked to music, and that was precisely the way in which he found God: through music … and a book by G.K. Chesterton. This past September 10, 2022, Eduardo was ordained at the

I Was an 18-Year-Old Addict Carrying a Drug Dealer’s Baby

September 15, 2022

I was born in 1989 into a dysfunctional home in Glendale, Arizona. Alcohol and drug abuse had plagued our family for generations. My late father’s addictions earned him a revolving door in and out of prison. My mother got pregnant at 19 after running away

Notre Dame head football coach Marcus Freeman joins the Catholic Church

September 14, 2022

Marcus Freeman, the new head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, has reportedly converted to the Catholic faith, a process he began since his arrival in South Bend, Indiana. “Welcome to our newest Catholic, Marcus Freeman,” read an announcement in the Sept. 11

Bishop Earl Boyea: We need to “form the culture, rather than have it form us”

September 12, 2022

Bishop Earl Boyea, 71, has led the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan since 2008. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and grew up in Waterford, the oldest of 10 children. He entered the seminary for the Archdiocese of Detroit, ordained a priest in 1978, and named an auxiliary