By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 06:00 am As a competitive figure skater growing up, Rachael Popcak Isaac experienced firsthand the pressure that comes with competitive sports. Now as a devout Catholic and a professional counselor she has launched a new program for athletes inspired by St. John …

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jul 16, 2025 / 10:30 am Pope Leo XIV has encouraged encounter and unity in a message to the players and spectators of a soccer game to support sick and injured children from war zones. “It is still possible — it is always possible — to …

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 …

By and large, men and women love sports. Okay, maybe not everyone and perhaps not all sports, but throughout history, sports have been a beloved part of human life. Why? If you closely examine the fundamental elements of sport, you’ll see it closely aligns with some of the human heart’s …

Pope Leo XIV will greet Giro d’Italia bicyclists passing through Vatican City on Sunday, 1 June, in memory of Pope Francis, who had welcomed the proposal presented by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education. By Vatican News Pope Leo XIV will greet the …

Pope Leo XIV meets with Naples’ football club, which is celebrating its fourth-ever league victory, and stresses that “it’s the team,” not the individual players, which wins a championship. By Joseph Tulloch Pope Leo XIV met on Tuesday morning with members of SSC Napoli, the football club which on Friday …

By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2024 / 10:50 am In an Instagram post announcing his conversion to the Catholic faith, former NBA All-Star Gordon Hayward captioned a photo of himself in Rome’s Cathedral of St. Sebastian with the Latin phrase “Nunc Coepi,” or “Now I begin.” And what a beginning …

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Jan 19, 2023 / 14:30 pm Tony Dungy is a man who wears many hats: football coach, father of 11, NFL analyst, adoptive dad, New York Times bestselling author, and Pro Football Hall of Famer, among others. But the title that the former star athlete …

On a bright, sunny, but chilly day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Roger Bacon High School Team A finished Sunday’s tournament action with 0 wins and 2 losses in the second and final day of the 2022 Milwaukee Fall Tournament, finishing in 9th place in this regional invitational tournament, while Roger …

That’s a phrase anyone who meets Jim Brooks will likely hear, no matter the weather or conditions. Brooks sees this as an uplifting mindset. “We should all fill in the blank: ‘It’s a great day for’ because it truly is great to be alive, to live for and love others …