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St. Carlo Acutis, the Italian teenager who was recently canonized, is wildly popular around the world.  And now, he’s even got his own app. The St. Carlo Acutis Shrine & Center for Eucharistic Encounter in Malvern, Pennsylvania, launched a new mobile app inspired by St. Carlo. It’s called “Saint Carlo Acutis: Eucharistic Miracles of the Read More…

St. Carlo’s life and miracles? There’s an app for that

A painting by Rembrandt van Rijn that had disappeared from view for more than six decades has been rediscovered and authenticated, offering a striking glimpse into the Dutch master’s early engagement with biblical themes. The work, Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633), depicts the moment when the priest Zacharias learns that he and his Read More…

Lost Rembrandt depicting Zacharias rediscovered

As athletes compete at the Winter Paralympics in Milan and Cortina, showing the world what perseverance and determination look like on snow and ice, a much smaller race has been quietly touching hearts thousands of miles away. At the Special Olympics in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an eight-year-old runner named Jaydon was halfway through the 100-meter Read More…

The Special Olympics kiss that’s touching hearts worldwide

The Holy See Press Office announced that Leo XIV had accepted the resignation of Bishop Emanuel Hana Shaleta from his position as Eparch of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle of San Diego on March 10, 2026. The bishop had been arrested on March 5 on charges of embezzlement. In a statement Read More…

Chaldean bishop of San Diego resigns after arrest for embezzlement

Lebanon has asked the Holy See to help safeguard the Christian presence in the country’s south as renewed fighting at the Israeli border and beyond forces families from their homes and deepens a growing humanitarian crisis. Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi made the appeal during a phone call Tuesday with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, according Read More…

Voices in Lebanon, Iran seek help from Pope and Vatican

Women are incapable of teaching men how to be men.

While many priests and students of theology have been taught what to think about God, few are ever taught how to speak to him.

Since we are halfway through Lent, it’s a good moment to consider how it’s been going. The purpose of our self-denial is conversion, as we learn to let go of control and to depend more [...]

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