by Sherlyn Comia | Apr 4, 2022 | Meet The Children
MEET ADVENTINA! Girlstown Tanzania “My name is Adventina. I am the second born of 4 children. My father is Gabriel and my mother is Debora, both of them are farmers. I come from very poor family and so we worked so hard in order to survive. For me, I grew up with my...
by Sherlyn Comia | Apr 4, 2022 | Meet The Children
MEET RITCH ANTHONY! Boystown Minglanilla “Our place is a mountainous area, and it’s hard to find work. The common occupation of the people there is farming. For us to go to the city, we need to walk around two kilometers. Houses are a little far from one to the other...
by Sherlyn Comia | Nov 23, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
TO CREATE A MIRACLEThe mystery, substance and grinding work of helping to move along the canonization of a saint in the Catholic Church can be exemplified by Sr. Josephine, a cloistered Carmelite nun whose monastery is tucked away in a small Illinois town. Six months...
by Sherlyn Comia | Oct 29, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
READING THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS In the many weeks spent researching the life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, founder of World Villages for Children and the Sisters of Mary, I had, of course, discovered countless compelling aspects of his personality and priesthood: he...
by Sherlyn Comia | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
WHEN A HELLISH SCENE UNFOLDED BEFORE THEM, A TRAIN FULL OF PASSENGERS STOOD STILL Every so often a news story from the culture slips past the inundation of daily news feeds and manages to paralyze us. This particular story, which broke earlier this week in...