Two priests in Ukraine asked Western church leaders for support, especially in anticipation of a widely expected Russian invasion. "While our TV news shows tanks and army units deployed on our borders, the war in eastern ...
A young Catholic priest has been beatified as a martyr in Poland, nearly eight decades after he was guillotined by wartime Nazi occupiers for clandestine charity work. Blessed Jan Macha "died, like the grain of wheat, ...
Poland's military archbishop urged security forces to prevent the illegal entry of refugees and migrants, as the country's bishops' conference announced a nationwide collection to help those amassing on the frontier with Belarus. "Our republic's eastern ...
Pope Francis urged bishops from throughout Eastern Europe to recognize mistakes in their handling of sexual abuse in order to open "new horizons of love and reciprocal service." Speaking Sept. 19 in a video message on ...
The archbishop who steered Poland's Catholic Church through communist rule and a blind Franciscan nun who founded one of Europe's foremost centers for the sight-impaired took a step closer to sainthood Sept. 12. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, ...
In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history's most notorious crimes. At the center, three stained-glass windows, ...
As a wave of wildfires devastated parts of Greece, a Catholic archbishop said different policies might be needed to help prevent recurrences. "We must be much more sensitive and careful when it comes to ecology and ...
Three Red Cross nurses are to be beatified as martyrs in Spain, 85 years after they were raped and shot while caring for wounded Civil War soldiers, having refused to renounce their Catholic faith. "These martyrs ...
On Paris' Rue Haxo, a white-brick church commemorates dozens of Catholic clergy who fell victim to one of modern Europe's bloodiest uprisings. Its 150th anniversary will be marked in the last week of May with ...
A Polish cardinal, former secretary to St. John Paul II, could face jail time after a Polish state commission accused him of ignoring sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. Poland's State Commission on Pedophilia said it would ...
