A new app is helping Catholic military personnel grow in their faith. “Catholic Military Connect” is geared towards service men and women who seek an outlet to deepen their faith around the demanding schedule of a soldier. The app was announced by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican
In January 2020, Alexandre Goodarzy was bundled into the back of a car in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad along with three other colleagues belonging to SOS Chrétien d’Orient, a French-based charity helping people in disaster areas requiring humanitarian aid. Fearing for their lives, the four Catholic charity workers
Pope St. John Paul II and Blessed Carlo Acutis will be among the patrons of World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon. Cardinal Manuel Clemente, the Patriarch of Lisbon, unveiled the new patrons on May 18, the anniversary of the Polish pope’s birth. The 73-year-old cardinal said that the Virgin Mary would be
Until recently, I was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters, one of the biggest news organizations in the world. It was my job, among other things, to sift through reams of numbers and figure out what they meant. About a year ago, I
Effortless power is a defining feature of what we began, roughly 150 years ago, to call “modern” life. In countless domains, technology has equipped human beings to vastly increase the sensation of strength while vastly reducing the sensation of effort. A world-class weightlifter is physically
The first reading from Sunday Mass this week (5th Sunday of Easter) is very Catholic, and it’s too informative to just pass by. It presents a Church as rather highly organized and possessed of some the structures we know today in full form. Granted, some
The family and church community of 86-year-old missionary Ruth Whitfield, who was the oldest of 10 mostly black people executed during the racially-motivated massacre at Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo by an avowed white supremacist on Saturday, is grieving her as a strong woman of
Bridget is a 6-year-old Ukrainian girl, severely disabled from complications in the womb and a premature birth. Her twin brother died at birth—and a third child was aborted. These three lives were conceived through surrogacy. Two lives were prematurely extinguished, and the third—who survived—was rejected
A senior German priest has announced that he is no longer Catholic, citing his disappointment over a lack of “reforms” in the Church and admitting to having broken his promise of celibacy. Andreas Sturm, the former vicar general of the Diocese of Speyer in southwestern Germany, made
A young Christian couple in Sudan who have two children together are facing 100 lashes on charges of “adultery” after a sharia (Islamic law) court nullified their marriage following the husband’s conversion to Christianity. The couple, 34-year-old Hamouda and 25-year-old Nada from Al Jazirah state, got
Praying the Rosary
Familiarize yourself with the prayers of the rosary.
