Soon-to-be beatified priests, along with fellow martyred Lutheran pastor, were ‘shining lights on our common ecumenical path.’ MARTYRS. Three Catholic priests and a Lutheran pastor from the northern ...

A shrine honoring South Korea’s Catholic martyrs has celebrated its designation as an international pilgrimage site. During the celebration in December, Bishop Augustinus Jong-soo Kim, an auxiliary ...

A Vatican cardinal beatified four martyrs of the Spanish Civil War on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared Francesco Cástor Sojo López ...

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s innovative Martyrs of Communism project is a revival of the classically Catholic way of preaching the Gospel message. A marker commemorating the Ukrainian martyrs of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The birth of Stanley ...

The remains of Korea's first recorded Catholic martyrs -- Paul Yun Ji-chung (1759-91) and James Kwon Sang-yeon (1751-91) -- have been discovered 230 years after their deaths. The remains of Yun's ...

A Ukrainian woman dressed in military attire prays inside the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church in Lviv, western Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (Credit: Bernat Armangue/AP.) Listen ROME – When ...

A Catholic museum in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, has launched a year-long exhibition on the persecution and martyrdom of Catholics in the 19 th century and to showcase mementos kept by them. The ...

ROME – For those with ears to hear, every so often it’s actually possible to detect the sound of history’s tectonic plates as they shift. Such was the case Thursday, with a remarkable gesture by Pope ...

Authorities in the South Korean capital Seoul have installed a new plaque as part of the renovation process of Gwanghwamun Square where Pope Francis beatified 124 Catholic martyrs during his visit in ...

The birth of Stanley Francis Rother was by all accounts ordinary, aside from the weather. The Catholic farm boy came into the world during an Oklahoma dust storm. But in life – and in death – he was ...