While most kids his age are memorizing their times tables, 9-year-old William Maillis is studying astrophysics at college. His goal? To “prove that God does exist.” Maillis is the youngest of three kids, and his father is an Orthodox priest. His parents realized he was special when he started identifying...
Fr. Gabriele Amorth, exorcist for the Diocese of Rome, has died, according Cindy Wooden, Rome Bureau Chief of Catholic News Service. He was 91 years old. Fr. Amorth is reputed to have personally performed thousands of exorcisms during his career. As of 2013, he claimed to have performed around 160,...
Mother Teresa was just canonized a saint this last Sunday! Since she only died in 1997, lots of people have been able to mark the occasion by sharing stories of their personal interactions with her. One neat tidbit that stood out was shared on Twitter by Raymond Arroyo, author and...
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“I have a fun story about Mother Teresa!” began the grinning Fr. David Mary, Minister General of the Franciscan Friars Minor, standing near St. Peter’s Square in Rome the day before the canonization of Mother Teresa. “Many years ago when I was visiting with her in the sacristy and...
Pope St. John Paul II grew up with humble means in his home town of Wadowice, Poland from 1920 until he moved to Krakow in 1938 to study at the famous Jagiellonian University. During a visit to his home town as Pope in 1999, he made mention that he was...
