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Win or lose, players give glory to Jesus during college football playoffs By Joe Bukuras CNA Newsroom, Jan 7, 2025 / 07:00 am In the midst of fierce competition during the college football playoffs, a number of team leaders have made it clear that the glory of a national championship comes …

“I consider myself young at heart, insofar as I am rooted in Christ,” said Father Isaiah Callan, Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Fatima Family of Parishes (OLF) in the Piqua, Troy, Covington, and West Milton communities north of Dayton. To many, his simple joy and depth of faith come …

With the Young at Heart theme this month, The Catholic Telegraph team thought it fitting and fun to interview a panel of very young Catholics. So, I met with a group of seven second- grade students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Anderson after their all-school Mass to ask …

By Courtney Mares Turin, Italy, Jul 16, 2025 / 08:45 am When alpine climber Edoardo Ricci clips into a harness or prepares for a steep ascent in the Alps, he says a silent prayer to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. “I think that I was saved by him,” Ricci said, recalling the …

As Pope Leo XIV’s takes some time off at the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo from July 6 to 20, Vatican News looks at what past Popes have said about holidays. By Amedeo Lomonaco A break from work to restore physical strength, a chance to travel and contemplate the beauty …

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Jul 13, 2025 / 06:00 am When St. Paul encountered Christ on the road to Damascus, his life was changed. A Catholic summer camp ministry based in Ohio — but expanding around the country — hopes to give young adults the opportunity to have a similar, …

On June 29, 2025, the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul, Archbishop Casey, along with the other new Metropolitan Archbishops of the world, received his pallium from the Holy Father at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

ORIGNS The original church was built in 1888 for a German-speaking congregation at a cost of $18,000. The first Mass was offered on Christmas day by Father John B. Frohmiller. Our Lady of the Rosary School opened the following year with just two classrooms. The wooden Stations of the Cross …

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 8, 2025 / 08:00 am With the arrival of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, many people take a vacation, a period of rest away from their routine but also a unique opportunity to reconnect with their faith. A bishop, a mother, and a priest …

Have you heard of Polycarp, Justin, Tertullian, and Irenaeus? Although not exactly household names, they should be: they are among the early Church Fathers, who lived directly after the apostolic age. After the apostles, they are the first witnesses to the Christian faith. As St. Irenaeus said, they had “seen …