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What Does the Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes Mean for Us?

The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish, shortened to the Church of the Multiplication, is located at Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The modern church rests on the site of two earlier churches.

User’s Guide to Sunday, July 28

French Dominican Friar Created the Motto for the Olympic Games

The motto of the modern Olympic Games was coined by French Dominican friar Louis Henri Didon.

French Dominican friar Louis Henri Didon became friends with the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, five years before the 1896 Athens Games.

What Jonathan Roumie and Cardinal Tagle Reminded Us About John 6

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Cardinal Luis Tagle waves at pilgrims during the National Eucharistic Congress July 21, 2024.

COMMENTARY: The Bread of Life discourse was a highlight of the National Eucharistic Congress — and the focus of the next five weeks of Sunday reflection.

Olympic Athlete Now Priest at Paris Games/ Why the Knights Covered Rupnik Art

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Paris Olympics 2024 logo next to the Eiffel Tower.

The Paris Olympics gathering more than 10,000 athletes and millions of spectators is an opportunity for spiritual accompaniment. We talk to the Register’s Solene Tadie and a 1996 Olympian-turned-priest, Father Joe Fitzgerald, who is now in Paris, about pastoral care to athletes. Then, we discuss why the Knights of Columbus covered artwork of disgraced priest and artist Fr. Marko Rupnik at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington with Register editor in chief Shannon Mullen.

Second Round of Aid Delivered to Gaza by Latin Patriarchate and Order of Malta

In a July 24 press release, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem — a diocese that includes Jordan, Cyprus, Palestine, and Israel — announced that 40 tons of non-perishable food kits were delivered by Malteser International to a newly-established distribution center near the Patriarchate’s compound in the region for people in northern Gaza.

According to the press release, each food kit can feed a family of five for one month and will be distributed to both the Christian community and those in need within the area.

Bishops Barron and Paprocki Stress the Importance of ‘Inviting Catholics Back to Mass’

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, left, and Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield with Andrew Hansen, director of communications for the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois.

In their half-hour discussion, the bishops also addressed the importance of open dialogue about faith within families, as well as the need to counter the misconception that science and faith are incompatible.