Joy Zanghi

Nov 3, 2023 | thebostonpilot.com | Joy Zanghi |Maureen Crowley Heil

Your browser does not support the audio element. (OSV News) -- "FOCUS' mission statement is simple: It's to know Christ Jesus and fulfill the great commission," said Curtis Martin, founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. Based in Denver, FOCUS lives out that mission in that order: For its campus missionaries, "divine intimacy" and the pursuit of holiness come first, before their evangelization efforts, Martin said.

Nov 3, 2023 | thebostonpilot.com | Joy Zanghi |Maureen Crowley Heil

Your browser does not support the audio element. BRAINTREE -- Sister Norma Pimentel, a member of the Missionaries of Jesus and executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, discovered her calling when she visited a detention center for migrant children on the U.S.-Mexico border. The children had only just crossed, and the faces, clothes, and hair of the children were gray with mud from the Rio Grande. Tears were coming down their faces.

Nov 3, 2023 | thebostonpilot.com | Joy Zanghi |Maureen Crowley Heil

Your browser does not support the audio element. NORTH READING -- The Bigginses of Wilmington make quite the holy family. For the last three years, Donna Biggins and her husband Stephen have played Mary and Joseph in the nativity pageant at St. Theresa Parish in North Reading.

Nov 3, 2023 | thebostonpilot.com | Joy Zanghi |Maureen Crowley Heil

Your browser does not support the audio element. ''It might be truly said that all living Rome went to the great graveyard to honor its dead... A vast crowd passed in and out of the gates... there were very few indeed whose hands were not laden with a tribute of affection for their dead," reported The Pilot in November 1879.

Nov 3, 2023 | thebostonpilot.com | Joy Zanghi |Maureen Crowley Heil

Your browser does not support the audio element. "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." (Mt 19:14)For 180 years, the Missionary Childhood Association (MCA) has taught children around the world that no one is too young, no prayer too quiet, and no gift too small to make a difference.