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Stephanie Nix, head cook at St. Joseph School in St. Joseph, Minn., helps supervise the last lunch session when she finishes serving Jan. 23, 2025. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)

School’s head cook uses her culinary skills to help kids grow in their faith

Stephanie Nix did not take the head cook position at the school just because she loves to prepare food. For her, it's helping kids grow in their faith.
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A bird flies over the statue of the Risen Christ on top of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during Pope Francis' weekly general audience Nov. 13, 2024. The motto of a U.S. youth ministry called the Dead Theologians Society is "mortuum mundo, vivum in Christo" ("dead to the world, alive in Christ,"), which echoes St. Paul's call in Romans 6:11 to be completely transformed in accord with Christ's death and resurrection. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Dead Theologians Society brings new life to youth ministry

A youth ministry founded by a former rock drummer is sounding the call to grow closer to Christ by imitating the lives of the saints, and by praying for the souls in purgatory.
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Parents of pupils who died during a fatal fire react Sept. 6, 2024, at the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni, in the central Kenyan county of Nyeri. (OSV News photo/Monicah Mwangi, Reuters)

Kenya mourns 21 boys killed in academy dormitory fire

As Kenya mourned the 21 young boys killed in a school dormitory fire Sept. 6 in Kieni, Archbishop Anthony Muheria of Nyeri said the church was heartbroken and urged Christians to stay close to the affected families.
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Contractor Jim Oswalt works with students at a homesite in Stephens City, Va., during WorkCamp June 26, 2024. During each summer camp, teams of teens, guided by adult building contractors, site managers, and chaperones, come alongside people struggling with poverty to make their living spaces and conditions "safer, warmer and dryer," as a shared work camp motto goes. (OSV News photo/Jim Hale, Arlington Catholic Herald)

Catholic summer camps help youth meet Jesus, serve others

WINCHESTER, Va. (OSV News) — Summer is mission trip season — which usually conjures up images of a few dozen Catholic teenagers and their chaperones practicing the corporal works of mercy in developing nations while simultaneously expanding their cultural horizons. ...
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Comedian Bob Newhart cracks up Carmen Nanko and Father Robert Friday with a joke about the rain falling on the graduation ceremony May 21,1997 at The Catholic University of America. (OSV News photo/Catholic University of America, CNS archive)

Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart

About the same time Chicago-area native George Robert Newhart was inching his way from an accounting job toward a career in comedy, his older sister Joan was professing her final vows as a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin ...
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Christians attend a Sunday service at a church in Chibok, Nigeria, April 7, 2024. Nigerian soldiers fired upon students who were protesting the relentless attacks on Christian villages in Nigeria April 18 and 19, according to the British nongovernmental organization Release International. (OSV News photo/Temilade Adelaja, Reuters)

Nigerian military under fire for continued attacks on Christians

Nigerian soldiers fired upon students who were protesting the relentless attacks on Christian villages in Nigeria, according to the British nongovernmental organization Release International.
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