
Celebrating the Assumption of Mary
Our Day of Prayer builds on lessons from Mary’s visitation with Elizabeth — we rely on holy friendships to nurture and support us.

Our Day of Prayer builds on lessons from Mary’s visitation with Elizabeth — we rely on holy friendships to nurture and support us.

This May, we honor the Blessed Virgin Mary and celebrate the wonderful examples of mothers we encounter in our ministry.

Discover the remarkable story of St. Patrick: from enslaved captive to missionary, his obedience and love transformed Ireland. Explore his legacy.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini dedicated her life to serving vulnerable children. Throughout her life, she founded 67 orphanages and hospitals worldwide.
This is Weetherson Pierre, a nursing student I met on a recent mission trip. As a scholarship recipient of the Haitian Education Leadership Program (HELP), a CCO-sponsored program at the University of Notre Dame-Haiti, the country’s only Catholic university, Weetherson is not only a straight-A student, he is required to live by principals that are firmly rooted in Christian doctrines.
A couple of weeks ago, as I attended my fifth-grade son’s open house, I marveled at how much technology American children have at their disposal. It was the end of the year, and the kids were turning in the laptops their school had provided for homework. Yes, school-provided laptops! I compared this to my experiences traveling in the developing world. Students there were lucky if they had electricity, much less access to a computer.