At first blush, this spectacle appears to be another example of Mediterranean popular religiosity and its fascination with ...

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The Vatican has beatified a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda military authorities said two people died before executing a suspected explosive attack near a Catholic shrine in the capital ... Tuesday to remember a group of Christian ...

This list however is by no means exhaustive and ... Holy See and China on the appointment of bishops. Pizzaballa is the top Catholic in the Middle East with an archdiocese encompassing Israel ...

One of these victims was a Catholic priest. “The Nuncio was given a letter to be given to the Holy Father to include the name of Father Bernard Digal in the list of martyrs,” Father ...

The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFM) St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) is recognized as one of the most famous Franciscan martyrs of the ... returned to the Catholic Church.

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Sister Irene Kraus, a former chief executive of Daughters of Charity National Health System, was famous ... Catholic systems — including the St. Louis region’s Ascension — on its list ...