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An Invitation to the Real
StoriesIn COVID time, her freedom almost "vaporized," Mary is thrown a lifeline--and then shares it with others.
In COVID time, her freedom almost "vaporized," Mary is thrown a lifeline--and then shares it with others.
Nate and Ashley have been deeply challenged in their efforts to adopt a child. They share their story and what they have learned about saying "Yes" without condition.
Minnesota students explore the world through the life of Blessed Hermann the Cripple.
A conversation with Father Roberto
For the middle-schoolers of the Lower Midwest, a camping trip is the beginning of the Knights experience.
Young people in Toronto come together to get to know Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
In front of 2020's disturbing realities--the pandemic and the elections--Desa discovers that there is need of only one thing. And a new freedom emerges.
In the time of lockdown, following the simple proposal to pray a daily Rosary brings unexpected joy to Sean and his family.
An experience of anxiety out-of-control brings Father Alex face-to-face with the reality of his dependence, his need for fraternity, and the solace of prayer.
The Bay Ridge Band reunites as part of an international concert at this year's Encuentro Madrid.
In a trip to Italy for the olive harvest, Nancy discovers the truth of Father Carrón's insistence that "all these facts, even if they are small, are the sign of that Presence."
After the collapse of her parents' business, Bunny kept trudging forward, head down, abandoning herself to nothingness--until a conversation one night with a friend.
In performing simple gestures to support the beatification of Father Michael McGivney, the New Haven Community re-discovers an experience "so rich that it asks only to be tasted and followed."
Jonathan's sadness at the ongoing division in our country is met by a hope that becomes visible in the unity of his friends.
The 2020 Festival of Friendship Ushers an Online Revolution of Tenderness.
Discouraged by the impossibility of going to daily Mass, Matteo receives unexpected help from new blessed Carlo Acutis.
After months of meeting others digitally, "I had come to expect the mundane." How Marc's daughter's excitement at their flesh-and-blood friends reawakened him.
His post-COVID has gotten much smaller. Yet Ian finds hope in the witness of one who loved without limits in the middle of her own severely limited world.
"I can't transform them or myself. . . but unexpected things are happening."
Lucy finds herself bouncing from obsessive micromanagement to nervous distraction. What would happen if she put down the phone and took Christ at his word?
"Beginning Day meant saying that I need to be saved, then letting myself be saved."