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Shalom Youth Congress in Italia moved the participants to a deeper meeting with Jesus

24 August 2016

A deeper meeting with Jesus! The second day of Shalom Youth Congress, on Saturday, December 3rd, opened with the intervention of Moyses Azevedo, who preached to the Italian youth about the friendship with God and how to go “farther than where our feet can get” the central theme of the Congress. The founder of Shalom […]

The worst sinners who became saints

16 August 2016

Ask any Catholic to name a sinner who became a great saint and most will answer, “St. Augustine.” As a teenager, Augustine abandoned the Catholic faith for the pagan Manicheans sect, and took a mistress; they lived together for 17 years and had a son. Without meaning to diminish in any way the seriousness of […]

Can a sinner become a saint?

16 August 2016

Did canonized saints ever commit sin? Were they born with a halo? Were they perfect in every way possible? In the eyes of many Christians saints can appear too “heavenly” or “perfect” to be imitated. Often when reading a biography of a saint the reader can be left with the false impression that if you […]

What is it that drives Simone Biles to be the best?

12 August 2016

To answer that question, Us magazine recently asked Biles to empty her gymnastics bag in hopes of finding a secret formula to her success. While most of the contents of her bag were no surprise, the reporter noticed a white rosary that fell out. Biles explained, “My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. […]

For Michael Phelps, all that gold couldn’t glitter until he found God

12 August 2016

Medals and media accolades proved empty, and couldn’t fill a void that was turning his thoughts to suicide […]

All faiths must be ‘workers for peace’, says sister of Fr Jacques Hamel at funeral

3 August 2016

An estimated 1,700 people gathered in Rouen cathedral for the funeral Mass of the murdered priest The sister of the French priest slain by Islamist extremists appealed at his funeral on Tuesday for all faiths to work together for peace. “Let’s learn to live together, let’s be workers for peace,” Roselyne Hamel told an estimated […]

Why World Youth day is not a typical youth gathering, and it’s not “Catholic Woodstock” ?

3 August 2016

People accuse folks of ‘not being present’ during the big events in their lives because all they care about is snapping a picture with their phones, or grabbing a selfie with a celeb. As a photojournalist, I’m the worst. When I’m covering events, I rarely experience the significance of what’s happening before me. In fact, I […]

There can be no doubt that Fr Jacques Hamel died a martyr’s death

2 August 2016

The Church today is living in a time of saints, and of martyrs, and I suspect we shall see rather more of both in the coming weeks and years Fr Jacques Hamel died a martyr’s death. Of this there can be no question. The 85-year-old priest was at the altar offering the sacrifice of […]

The founder of Shalom Catholic Community, Moysés Azevedo, preached for the participants of the Shalom International Youth Meeting

1 August 2016

The founder of the Shalom Catholic Community, Moysés Azevedo, preached for the participants of the Shalom International Youth Meeting in the afternoon of this Monday,1 august, carried out one day after the end of World Youth Day. He stressed the words of Francis Pope about the need for young people to engage in the experience […]

Why Panama was chosen to be the place of the next WYD?

1 August 2016

KRAKOW, Poland- Pope Francis on Sunday closed the Catholic week-long rally know as World Youth Day on a high, inviting the almost two million young women and men who’d gathered in the land of St. John Paul II to meet him again in 2019 – this time in Panama. “God’s providence is always one step […]

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