A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope ...

At the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj, a unique pandal named "Shaheed Gram" has been set up at Sector 18, which honors the Indian soldiers who protect the country’s borders. As soon as visitors enter the ...

The major relics of three Canadian Roman Catholic martyrs will be on display this week in Kelowna for the first time ever, alongside a relic belonging to the church’s first Indigenous saint.

The first parade of the Mardi Gras season took place as scheduled in the French Quarter despite security fears following the ...

From mummies to werewolves to ghosts, ‘The Catholic Handbook’ offers a collection of spiritual and paranormal oddities.

That the Church honors the Holy Innocents along with St. John the Apostle and St. Stephen the first martyr in the first days after Christmas should not surprise us. The correlation between ...

SAINTS & ART: The witness of St. Thomas Becket, whose feast day is Dec. 29, underscores the perennial truth that no earthly king reigns above Christ. Detail of Willem Vrelant, “The Martyrdom of ...

Saints Magnus and Bonosa ... you can have a visible and tangible reminder and connection to the faith of the martyrs — two people whose faith was such that they were moved to make the ultimate ...

This involves elevating mere heroes into canonized saints. A question primarily, if not exclusively, addressed to the Church, and one it has not dealt with before. On Dec. 30, 1896, Dr. Jose Rizal, ...

A cross containing dirt stained with the blood of Sister Dorothy Stang, a U.S. member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur ...