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Prayer for Carlo Acutis | Man looks out a window

Carlo Acutis: Fearless and Faith-Filled

September 5, 2025

My heart breaks for young people today who first encounter the world through an app.

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Josephine Bakhita and Maria Goretti: Pray for us | Photo by Min An

Josephine Bakhita & Maria Goretti: Great Saints

August 29, 2025
Saints Josephine Bakhita and Maria Goretti have much to teach us in our day.
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woman sitting and praying by a lake close to sunset

A Prayer for Saint Clare

August 11, 2025
Prayer cannot be judged on the basis of “highs” or “feel-good” experiences.
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woman sitting on the ground next to her backpack with her belongings

Become Poor

August 10, 2025
How do we center ourselves in the love of God? Clare’s answer is simple and disarming: Become poor.
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Clare’s Spiritual Genius

August 9, 2025
To know God is to know the human person since the mystery of God is the human person.
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Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at age 24 and was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1990, will be canonized Sept. 7, 2025, along with Blessed Carlo Acutis. (OSV News photo/Catholic Press Photo)

For young adults, soon-to-be-saint Frassati has ignited their faith amid fellowship

August 8, 2025
Kyle Radgowski is one of the organizers of the Frassati Fellowship for young adults in Chicago’s southwest suburbs.
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Pilgrims gather near a portrait of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the Church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome, where his relics are displayed July 31, 2025, during the Jubilee of Youth, ahead of his Sept. 7 canonization. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Acutis relics a reminder for pilgrims that holiness ‘is not impossible’

August 4, 2025
Along one of Rome's busiest streets, Via del Corso, traffic moves slowly as hundreds of pilgrims crisscross traffic on foot to get to their destination.
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