Martyr

Blessed Iuliu Hossu was named a cardinal “in pectore” — secretly — by St. Paul VI in 1969. But the bishop was in a communist prison in Romania and never …

1. All speeches and messages from Pope Leo XIV since his May 8 election are available on the Vatican website and should be consulted before sharing alleged quotes or videos, …

On Feb. 27, 1938, during a Sunday morning Mass for children, Father Streich was gunned down by a radical communist during the consecration of the Eucharist.

At the beginning of 2024, I set out to read and reflect on one spiritual classic a month. Bearing in mind that only about 9% of people complete their New …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — God wants to save each and every person, and Christians are called to give witness to that fact by praying even for people who have harmed …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A scholar who has written about the moral implications of atomic weapons and now is writing a book on the historic legacy of faith of Catholics …

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With a beatification Mass for the Ulma family set for Sept. 10, the Vatican emphasized that all nine members of the Polish family …

UPDATE 9/5/2023: The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints clarified Sept. 5 that in including the Ulmas’ seventh child in the family’s Sept. 10 beatification, it had considered the child …