On the 150th anniversary of the Commune of Paris, a revolutionary and anticlerical government that took control of the French capital for 72 days, the Church is seeking to honor the memory of the ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Pope Francis has set up a special commission tasked with identifying those he calls the "new martyrs" of the 21st century — Christians who have been slain in some cases simply for attending Mass or ...

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 ...

Lent arrives each year as a season to focus on Christ, his suffering and his sacrifice. But for Pakistani Christians, it is also overshadowed by painful memories of violence, which has taken away many ...

The life of the first Catholic president is forever linked to Virginia and the small country church in Middleburg where ...

In just two days in early September of 1792, approximately 1,200 people were slaughtered by revolutionaries in France. Of the dead, approximately 200 were Roman Catholic priests and religious, most of ...

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 ...