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Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York, shared a January 7 press release announcing their school’s unique honor of having eight alumnae named to Women’s Olympic hockey teams. This college prep high school is home to the BK Selects Hockey Academy, which started for girls in 2016 and boys in 2020. Student-athletes reside at Read More…

1 Catholic school has 8 athletes in the Olympics!

As Sudan’s war grinds on with little international attention, Catholic bishops in the region are sounding an alarm that is both urgent and deeply personal. Both Sudan and South Sudan are suffering conflict, with the northern country’s war spilling over into the world’s youngest nation. In a recent communiqué, the bishops of South Sudan describe Read More…

For St. Josephine’s day, will you pray for one of her patronages?

As a young girl, Michele Armbrust’s grandmother was her greatest example of faith. Her mom was suffering a mental health challenge after an abusive first marriage and while she did her best, she needed help. Thankfully Michele’s large family had a generous grandma as a stable parenting presence.  Grandma was the one who would take Read More…

Need a recipe while grieving?: Humility, humor, healthy hobbies

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Adm. Brian Christine, a practicing Catholic, talked about the state of the pro-life movement and how his faith guides him. [...]

“For children with incurable diseases” is the intention that Pope Leo XIV is carrying in his heart for the month of February, and is distributed through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network in collaboration with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication. Through the “Pray with the Pope” campaign launched in January, which also includes The Pope Video Read More…

Leo XIV: “Teach us to recognize Your face in every suffering child”

“‘I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly’ ( Jn 10:10). These words of Jesus help us to understand the Church’s interest in sport and the manner in which Christians approach it.” This is Pope Leo’s reflection in a new letter on the “value of sport,” released February 6, as the Winter Olympics are Read More…

Pope Leo writes letter on “Church’s interest in sport”

There has been a rise in conversions to Catholicism in England in recent years and the Archdiocese of Southwark is ready to meet them with their brand new Ambassadors for Christ initiative. A survey from the Bible Society reports that 31% of churchgoers in 2024 identify as Catholics. This percentage is up from 23% in Read More…

English archdiocese responds to a surge of conversions

“I still consider myself very new, a sort of ‘beginner,’” Sister Simona Brambilla admits one year after her appointment as the first female prefect of the Roman Curia, in an interview with I.MEDIA. The Italian nun at the head of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life outlines the main Read More…

Interview with Sr. Brambilla, a woman pioneer in the Vatican

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to witness the Passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus? Would you have gone along with the crowds — or stood apart from them? Would you have acted like Joseph of Arimathea, risking your life to ask for the body of Jesus? Or like John, the Read More…

Where would you have stood on Good Friday?