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Pope Francis’s Letter “Patris corde” enriches Papal magisterium on the person of St Joseph. From the end of the 1800s till today, various Popes have gifted us with many a beautiful and profound page seeking to plumb the depths of this “man in the shadows”.

If Saul was born this century, teenagers would decorate their rooms with posters of his athletic image, young ladies would scream at his concerts and parents would ask him to kiss their babies as he worked the rope lines at rallies.

“I never wanted to act in the first place . . . forget their stories. I can tell my own stories.” That’s a line from Chadwick Boseman’s Howard University commencement speech in 2018.

Fr. Joaquim Cabanyes died at the age of 62 in Nigeria, due to Covid-19. Jaime remembers meeting him on a hot dusty road 20 years ago, in the middle of Nigeria.

On August 24, 1930, Venerable Isidoro Zorzano saw that God was calling him to Opus Dei, thanks to a providential meeting with Saint Josemaría on a street in Madrid.

The Oscar-winning composer, Ennio Morricone, whose music defined the atmosphere and success of hundreds of films of all genres, has died in Rome, aged 91. Lesser known are his production of Sacred Music and his admiration for Pope Francis.

He arrived in Italy by boat in 1993, became a welder, discovered the faith that his grandmother had transmitted to him by singing, and became a priest. Three years ago, he returned to Albania. The Pope has appointed him an auxiliary bishop of Tiranë.

Pope Francis establishes a John Paul I Vatican Foundation presided over by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State.

Father, grandfather became a priest at 58, after being widowed and serving as a deacon for 13 years

Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Southern California, along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. Bryant, the father of four, was Catholic. In all nine people were killed in the Jan. 26 crash.