In early centuries, Christians executed in the Roman Empire for refusing to renounce their faith – called martyrs, meaning witnesses – were commemorated by their local communities and referred to as ...

How does someone become a saint in the Roman Catholic Church? How many saints are there? The second question is harder to answer than the first. During the church's first 1,000 years, saints were ...

VATICAN CITY, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel peace laureate who dedicated her life to helping the poorest, is to be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said ...

Being the founder of the Jesuits did not stop this great man of faith from suffering from depression or “desolation” as he called it in his Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, which was ...

The reliquary, part of the national Relics of Love and Trust Tour 2025, is stopping in the Washington area from Nov. 19 to 30 ...

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - The faithful gathered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine here last week to touch holiness in the form of a traveling exhibition of more than 150 sacred relics, including ...

A conservative Episcopal priest, who is a top administrator in the Tennessee diocese, is leaving the church to become a Roman Catholic. Andrew Petiprin recently announced his plans to change his ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It's the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. That traditional belief has morphed over the centuries into the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Riverside church celebrated its 110 year anniversary Sunday and had a visit from the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. Bishop Michael William Fisher paid a visit to ...

(The Conversation) — Saints are recognized for exceptional virtue and faith. But some also are commemorated for their scholarship. In early centuries, Christians executed in the Roman Empire for ...