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Craig Cuccia, Co-founder and executive director, Café Reconcile, New Orleans, Louisiana

by Kerry Weber

Craig Cuccia is the co-founder and executive director of Café Reconcile, a restaurant that provides on-the-job training in the service industry for inner city teens in New Orleans. As one of twelve recipients of this year’s Catholic Digest heroes award… read more
Q&A: Theresa Karminski Burke, Founder, Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

by Julie Rattey

Teresa Karminski Burke has been selected by Catholic Digest as one of 12 Catholic heroes — laypeople living and/or working in the United States who are performing exemplary work in the spirit of the Catholic faith. In 1986, Burke founded Rachel… read more
"Please God, send someone to save me"*

by Julie Rattey

"There she is. That’s my daughter.”Standing in the doorway of a small, crowded room, Mariefe** pointed to 16-year-old Isabel. At the sight of the woman who had raised her and her twin sister Irene, then sold them into prostitution, Isabel … read more

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