In many countries, Dec 26, also known as Boxing Day, is better known as St Stephen s Day Stephen was the first Christian ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, along went some other episcopal conferences around the world, called for the Church Father, Saint Irenaeus (A.D. 140-202) to be declared a Doctor of ...

On Jan. 21, the Roman Catholic Church honors the virgin and martyr St. Agnes, who suffered death for her consecration to Christ. Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine tradition celebrate her feast day ...

Jeoldusan Martyrs' Shrine, Seoul, South Korea. Photo by Robby McCullough, courtesy of Unsplash. A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr Find today’s readings here. “For God ...

The English priest St. John Plessington was among dozens martyred because of an anti-Catholic hoax in the seventeenth century. Now a diocese seeks to confirm whether remains long venerated as a martyr ...

Sisters make the walk from their nearby convent, adjacent to OSF St. Anthony’s Medical Center, to St. Joseph’s Cemetery for the solemn ceremony Friday evening. ALTON — The Sisters of St. Francis of ...

Three kings play contrasting roles in this story. In 1539, on the orders of Henry VIII, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds was destroyed. It had been founded five centuries earlier in 1020 by ...

Catholics in northern Vietnam have been urged to follow shining examples of how to bear witness to Catholicism set by an old priest who was killed for his faith in the 19th century. Hundreds of ...