Paris Olympics 2024 logo next to the Eiffel Tower.
Paris Olympics 2024 logo next to the Eiffel Tower. (photo: Kovop / Shutterstock)

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

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.

Scuola del Cuoio focuses on the craft of leathergoods.

Catholic Business Profile: Scuola del Cuoio

Located inside the Franciscan monastery of Santa Croce, it was founded in 1950 by Marcello Gori and his brother-in-law Silvano Casini to teach the art of leatherworking to World War II orphans.