Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids

November 3: ST. HUBERT: The Hunter Who Met Christ in the Forest

Meet St. Hubert, the grieving hunter who saw a crucifix between a stag's antlers on Good Friday. Hubert was chasing a magnificent stag through the forest when the stag

November 2: CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING: The Woman Who Came Back

For All Souls Day, hear the story of Christina the Astonishing, the woman who saw purgatory and came back to pray for the holy souls. Everyone believed Christina had di

November 1: ALL SAINTS DAY: The Feast That Belongs to Everyone

Discover why All Saints Day belongs to every Catholic family, and why you are invited to this feast too. On this Solemnity of All Saints, Sprouts travels to ancient Rom

October 31: ST. DENIS: The Bishop Who Walked After Death

St. Denis was beheaded by Roman soldiers on a hill outside Paris — then stood up, picked up his own head, and kept walking. The first bishop of Paris, Denis, was martyr

October 30: ST. CHARLES DE FOUCAULD: The Man Who Came Home

St. Charles de Foucauld lived a life of wealth, adventure, and no faith at all — until a single confession changed everything in an afternoon. A former cavalry officer

October 29: BL. CHIARA BADANO: The Girl Who Chose Joy

Blessed Chiara Badano was sixteen and playing tennis when a sudden pain turned out to be bone cancer — and she chose to give it to Jesus. An energetic Italian teenager

October 28: ST. JUDE: The Apostle of Last Resort

St. Jude was one of Jesus's original twelve apostles — and for centuries, Catholics were too afraid of his name to pray to him. Present at the Last Supper and at Pentec

October 27: BL. CONTARDO FERRINI: The Professor Who Prayed in the Alps

Blessed Contardo Ferrini was one of Europe's most celebrated law professors — and he stopped everything every day at noon to pray. A brilliant scholar of Roman law who

October 26: BL. JOSÉ GREGORIO HERNÁNDEZ: The Doctor of the Poor

Blessed José Gregorio Hernández trained with Europe's finest doctors — then spent his whole career treating Venezuela's poor for free. One of the most gifted physicians

October 25: ST. ANTONIO DE SANT'ANNA GALVÃO: The Friar with Paper Pills

St. Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvão, known as Frei Galvão, turned tiny handwritten prayers into pills the sick could actually hold. As the friary's confessor in colonial Sã

October 24: MARTYRS OF NAJRAN: Companions of Martyrs

An entire Christian city in ancient Arabia was given a choice — deny Christ or die — and chose Jesus together. When King Dhu Nuwas surrounded Najran and demanded its Ch

October 23: ST. JOHN OF CAPISTRANO: The Friar Who Led an Army

St. John of Capistrano was a seventy-year-old friar with no sword — and he rode out to help save Europe from an Ottoman siege. A former lawyer who joined the Franciscan

October 22: ST. JOHN PAUL II: Be Not Afraid

St. John Paul II was shot in St. Peter's Square — and two years later, he sat in a prison cell forgiving the man who tried to kill him. Shaped by devastating loss in hi

October 21: ST. LAURA MONTOYA: Into the Jungle

St. Laura Montoya left a comfortable teaching career to paddle upriver into the Colombian jungle for children nobody else was looking for. Convinced that the indigenous

October 20: ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS: The School of the Cross

St. Paul of the Cross built an entire religious order around one conviction: that gazing at Jesus's suffering teaches us how loved we are. After receiving the rule for

October 19: ST. ISAAC JOGUES: The Missionary Who Went Back

St. Isaac Jogues escaped slavery among the Mohawk with broken, tortured hands — and then chose to go back. A Jesuit missionary among the Huron people, Isaac was capture

October 18: ST. LORENZO RUIZ: If I had a Thousand Lives

St. Lorenzo Ruiz was a father and calligrapher with an ordinary life in Manila — until a ship to Japan changed everything. A devoted member of the Confraternity of the

October 17: ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: God's Wheat

St. Ignatius of Antioch spent his final journey in chains writing letters that Christians still read two thousand years later. Arrested for his faith and marched toward

October 16: ST. GERARD MAJELLA: The Silent Wonder Worker

St. Gerard Majella was falsely accused of serious wrongdoing — and never once defended himself. A humble Redemptorist brother known for astonishing miracles, from biloc

October 15: ST. TERESA OF ÁVILA: God Alone Suffices

St. Teresa of Ávila spent twenty comfortable years as a nun before a statue of the suffering Christ stopped her in her tracks. Charming and popular but only half-commit