Six-year-old Noah Jacob is a child model whose image can be seen in ads for the department store Target. His nickname is “Super Noah,” a nod to his status as a supermodel. However, behind the bright smile and playful eyes, Noah faces a problem too big for a young boy to handle.He has Down Syndrome, a condition often accompanied by other health issues — in Noah’s case, poor eyesight is one of them.
George Washington, an American Revolution military hero and the nation’s first president, seldom mentioned the Lord Jesus Christ in speeches, conversations, or writings. Yet Washington, “The Father of His Country,” often talked and wrote about “providence” — that guiding and protective care of a creator God.
During a trip to Europe in 1953, accomplished 20th-century jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was exhausted,
emotionally drained, and facing financial peril when a friend took her to a small church in France where she began to pray.
As Deanna Witkowski explains in her 2021 biography of Williams, titled “Music for the Soul,” that’s where the musician’s spiritual journey and conversion to Catholicism began.
Faith, redemption, and football metaphors filled The Ultimate Playbook conference at the Emmaus Center in Williamsburg on June 11, which aimed to provide men with guidance to improve their spiritual and personal lives.
Mike Piazza’s “Healing Power of a Swing” lifted NYC after 9/11.
Difficulties and crises within the Catholic Church are not signs of a church in decline but one that is alive and living through challenges, just like men and women today, Pope Francis said.
As Cole Hocker approached the starting line for the biggest race of his life, he paused for a moment to follow his usual prerace routine of saying a prayer.
The Olympics are a “once in a lifetime experience” for Bushwick native Juan Carlos “J.C.” Obregón Jr., who is soaking in every minute of his journey to Japan.
On March 15, Constanza Alva de Urmeneta got in the car behind the hearse for the funeral procession of her 15-year-old daughter, Pía Urmeneta. Typically somber occasions, it was apparent from the second they drove off the church lot that this was instead a celebration of Pía’s life, just as she had wanted.
Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in early March in a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the place known in Arabic as the “land of the two rivers” — the mighty Tigris and Euphrates — and once renowned as Mesopotamia, the “cradle of civilization.”
