St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female ...

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...

Pope Leo XIV formally recognized the martyrdom of 50 French priests, seminarians and laymen who died in Gestapo custody, Nazi ...

The next day, the hand is sometimes taken to St Joseph's RC Church Brindle, and worshippers there retrace Arrowsmith's last ...

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

The Vatican is beatifying a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a part of the world wracked with violence a new model of holiness.

The hymnology for the feast of All Saints also lists six categories: “Rejoice, assembly of the Apostles, Prophets of the Lord ...

The hymnology for the feast of All Saints also lists six categories: “Rejoice, assembly of the Apostles, Prophets of the Lord ...

Every day the ECHO print edition carries tributes and funeral notices for those who have lost a loved one recently and our condolences go out to all. It gives people a chance to celebrate the lives of ...

Egypt ranks No. 40 on Open Doors’ World Watch List of countries where it is hardest ... And new martyrs are incorporated into the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Synaxarium, or Life of the Saints, ...

Jose Mario O. Mandia. In the Communicantes of the First Eucharistic Prayer (Roman Canon), the names of some popes are mentioned: Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus and Cornelius. Linus, Cletus and Clement ...

The list of some of the longest-serving Popes include: Pope Pius IX (1846–1878): 31 years — The longest-reigning Pope in history, Pius IX led the Church through one of its most turbulent eras.