Missionaries

Pilgrims poured in from all over Georgia, the United States and even around the world to honor five 16th-century Franciscan martyrs were given the title “blessed” on Oct. 31, the …

The Georgia Martyrs, Ffve Franciscan friars killed in present-day Georgia for defending Church teaching in 1597 were beatified Oct. 31 in a Mass where Church leaders considered their witness amid …

Bishops, Franciscans and other pilgrims traveled to St. Catherines Island, the site where some of the five Georgia Martyrs had a mission and were buried.

Pilgrims traveling to the Savannah Convention Center for the beatification of the Georgia martyrs talked about how these friars’ example touched their lives.

On Oct. 31, the Georgia Martyrs — five 16th-century Spanish Franciscan missionaries who served the indigenous Guale people of what is now Georgia — will be beatified.

Every day for more than four years, in a Catholic parish deep in the Russian region of Siberia, a small community has gathered before the Blessed Sacrament to pray the …

The aim of World Mission Sunday (Oct. 18), established 100 years ago by Pope Pius XI, has “borne fruit in my own life,” said Pope Leo XIV.

There is an apparent contradiction, at first glance, between the fact that St. Thérèse of Lisieux never left her Carmelite monastery and yet is patroness of missionary activity.

Catholics around the world will mark World Mission Sunday on Oct. 18, and a “renewed energy” infuses the annual celebration of the Church’s missionary activity this milestone year, one expert …

In his pastoral letter, Archbishop Sample pointed to what he called a “watershed moment” in the Church, particularly in western Oregon.