The flag-draped casket was empty during a memorial Mass in Wichita for Father Emil J. Kapaun July 29, 1953. The casket at Father Kapaun's funeral Mass Sept. 29, won't be vacant. He is coming home. The memorial ...
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 new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Derek Rotty shares how St. Peter Claver is the perfect patron for race relations in our day and age. Rotty writes: “We stand in a moment of ...
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of a young mother of three who died of cancer after delaying chemotherapy treatment in order to save the life of her unborn child. The pope signed decrees recognizing the ...
El Salvador has set a Jan. 22 date for the beatifications of Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, Franciscan Father Cosme Spessotto and two laymen, the Salvadoran bishops' conference announced Aug. 27. All four were martyred during the ...
Various international agencies report that over 70 million Christians have been murdered for their faith since the time of Christ’s passion. The same agencies claim that upwards of 45 million such murders took place in ...
Author and photographer Linda Schaefer shares how her life was impacted by Mother Teresa. Shaefer had lost her husband to cancer and she was invited to “Come and see” at Mother Teresa’s invitation. In 1995, ...
As Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, presided at a memorial Mass and reentombment of the body of Father Patrick Ryan at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, a possible miracle attributable to ...
At 10:50 on the morning of July 27, Father J. David Carter's voice rang out at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chattanooga: "We are about to lift the coffin from the grave." And with that, the sainthood ...
An Australian outback diocese has announced what is believed to be the world's first K-12 school to be named after a teenage computer programmer beatified by Pope Francis last year. Blessed Carlo Acutis College will have ...
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