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 a liberal arts focus, and Bishop Columba
A reader asks: “Protestants often criticize Catholics for praying to Mary and the saints. They say this is a violation of the First Commandment. Or, to look at the question from another perspective: If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, why not pray
Father Emil Kapaun, a priest of the Wichita Diocese who laid down his life as a military chaplain during the Korean War, received South Korea's highest military decoration posthumously in Seoul July 27.
Ray Kapaun, Father Kapaun's nephew, accepted the Order of Military
Members of the Neocatechumenal Way formally presented to the archbishop of Madrid a request to open the sainthood cause of their co-founder, Carmen Hernández.
Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra of Madrid celebrated Mass in the city's cathedral July 19, the fifth anniversary of her
Cardinal Bechara Rai, the Maronite patriarch, pleaded for the intercession of Lebanon's beloved St. Charbel Makhlouf as the beleaguered country spirals deeper into collapse, further roiled by the resignation of the prime minister-designate.
"Today on the feast of St. Charbel, saint of Lebanon,
On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Dominic Guzman, Father Carmen Mele of the Southern Dominican Province explores the legacy of the founder of the Dominican order, writing that “Dominic’s most characteristic quality was assuredly love of Christ. He normally
Forty years ago, Father Stanley Rother of Oklahoma was killed while serving as a missionary in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. In 2016, Pope Francis declared him a martyr for the Faith, and he was beatified in Oklahoma City a year later. In marking
When the U.S. bishops met for their spring assembly on June 16-18, they gave the go-ahead for two dioceses to advance the canonization causes of two 20th-century men who displayed valor and courage in wartime. Brian Fraga reports on the lives of
Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of 10 nuns who were brutally murdered by Soviet soldiers in Poland at the end of World War II and declared venerable Robert Schuman, who is considered one of the founding fathers of European unity.
The pope signed
The U.S. bishops gave their go-ahead to two dioceses to continue their efforts to make their case for a priest and a brother to be considered for sainthood.
The men are Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, an Army