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Sister Mary Amiya plays her Harmonium at Shanti Bhabon in Gazipur, Sept. 27, 2025.

‘My songs will be sung in churches’: A Bangladeshi sister’s living legacy

Oct 25, 2025

By Sumon Corraya

Sister Amiya spent 42 years as a teacher and has been a passionate composer of sacred music. The Bangladeshi religious... Read more

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A still from “Trailblazers of Faith: The Legacy of African American Catholics,” which tells the inspiring story of how African Americans found a home in Catholicism without abandoning their identity or culture. Those pictured are the African Americans currently on the path to sainthood: Venerable Henriette DeLille, Julia Greeley, Father Augustus Tolton, Mother Mary Lange, Pierre Toussaint, and Sister Thea Bowman.

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The “Sons of Thunder” vocations club at St. Bartholomew Church in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

‘Sons of Thunder’ vocations group teaches boys how to be Catholic men

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, speaks with members of Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), during a Dec. 5, 2025 fundraising dinner to support of Christians in the Holy Land at St. John's Resort in Plymouth, Michigan.

On visit to Detroit, patriarch of Jerusalem focuses on hope for Holy Land Christians

The Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Archdiocese prays St. Andrew novena for fallen away Catholics

Chris Pratt speaks at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.

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Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, president of the Slovak Bishops’ Conference, blesses the new mosaic of Our Lady of Sorrows in the Vatican Gardens at a ceremony attended by Slovak President Peter Pellegrini and Vatican officials on Dec. 5, 2025

New Slovak Virgin Mary mosaic highlights spiritual bonds between Slovakia and Vatican

Statue of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Bari, Italy, at the Pontifical Basilica of St. Nicholas.

The saint of Christmas and ecumenism: Bari celebrates St. Nicholas

The contemplative Sisters of the Monastery of Bethlehem in Livingston Manor, New York, support themselves by offering their hand-painted chinaware and other unique gifts for sale.

Christmas 2025: Handmade gifts from 14 Catholic monasteries

St. Nicholas, by Jaroslav Čermák (1831-1878).

5 things to know and share about St. Nicholas

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