"I would like to thank Women of Grace and my first two Women of Grace Foundational Study groups for the opportunity to be their facilitator and for it to have been such a wonderful experience. The study program itself is phenomenal and the women who took the time to participate and share of themselves during these past nine weeks made it all the more enriching and fruitful.
Johnnette Benkovic Williams gives her presentation on “Healing the Wounds of the Heart; Journey to Joy” at the Cathedral of St. Ignatius Loyola May 30, 2026.
Fourteen women eagerly joined the "Women of Grace Full of Grace Foundational Study" at the Newman Center at the University of New Mexico in the fall of 2025. This is the first time it has been offered because Aquinas Newman Center was requested to offer more studies for women. The class met for seventeen weeks and once finished the women desired more spiritual growth and will begin Moments with Mary in mid-May! Our Blessed Mother is bringing them closer to her Son.
For fifteen years, I was broken and living my life in darkness. I went through my day-to-day life for the sake of my family, but on the inside, I was hopeless and alone. Then, a couple of years ago, something began to change.
Although I was a baptized Catholic I did not stay the course as regards church teaching and obedient living.
St. Joseph Oratory at Mount Royal (Image courtesy of Wikicommons Images, Dpalma01, CC-BY-SA 4.0)by Theresa Cavicchio
Each year, two million visitors travel to Montreal to visit the Oratory of Saint Joseph at Mount Royal. The massive basilica and shrine occupy a place of prominence – the highest point, in fact – above the bustling Canadian metropolis below. It is the largest church and shrine dedicated to Saint Joseph in the world.
by Theresa Cavicchio, OFSFranciscans around the world – religious and lay – are celebrating the recent announcement of the Jubilee Year of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – 1226 A.D.). This special time – from January 10, 2026, to January 10, 2027, has been proclaimed by Pope Leo XIV in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the death of the “Little Poor Man” later this year.
JB write: “I want to contribute to the Shriner’s Hospital for Children, but am hesitating because I heard the Shriners are connected to Freemasons. Is this true?”
Earlier this month the Italian Embassy to the Holy See hosted a conference on the practice of surrogacy, calling for a “total abolition” of the practice, a position shared by a surprising number of secular feminist groups.
Before beginning the Women of Grace Foundational Study, I was grateful for the many blessings in my life. I had a devoted husband, a loving marriage of more than thirty five years, and three children who practiced their faith and tried to live as kind, committed Catholics. Still, beneath the surface, I carried worries I could not control. I often spent my time on things that left me feeling empty, and in a difficult season I failed to witness my Catholic faith as I knew I should. Yet in God’s mercy, even through my weaknesses, He gently led me to the Women of Grace Foundational Study.
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