A group of “slum priests” in Argentina has launched a year-long pilgrimage to highlight the nation’s drug addiction crisis, using the image of Our Lady of Lujan, Argentina’s patroness for assistance.

This 9 August marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Edith Stein, St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who was killed at Auschwitz in 1942. In his homily during Holy Mass in the Carmelite Monastery in Auschwitz, Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development reflects on her remarkable story.

The Pope recognises the murder in hatred of the faith of a priest from the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo, Ukraine, who was killed in 1953 in the Soviet Union. There are also Decrees promulgated for the heroic virtues of five new Venerables, including the director of "Radio Aparecida", Vittorio Coelho de Almeida, and the founder of "Sorriso Francescano", Capuchin Umile da Genova

More than a million flowers were used in the arrangements at Santa Ana Ixtlahuatzingo Catholic Church in preparation for the parish's feast day: July 26, feast of St. Anne, grandmother of Jesus, and St. Joachim, his grandfather.

An Australian couple who pioneered one of the world's most successful natural fertility methods are being celebrated as potential saints by those in the medical profession who worked with them as well as families who benefited from their innovative ovulation method, now taught in more than 40 countries around the world.

Pope Francis places his Apostolic Journey to Canada into the hands of Our Lady, praying before the icon of Mary, Salus Populi Romani, in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major.

In a time filled with many fears and spiritual "potholes," Franciscan scholar Jon Sweeney gives us some helpful reflections on how to navigate these days in light of who St. Francis of Assisi was and how he lived.

On the eve of the World Meeting of Families and with a view toward the beatification Sept. 4 of Pope John Paul I, attention turned to his initial openness to softening Catholic teaching on contraception and his later support for the teaching of St. Paul VI.

Bishop David D. Kagan of Bismarck announced June 16 the diocese will open an investigation into "the holiness of life and love for God" of North Dakota native Michelle Christine Duppong, who died of cancer Dec. 25, 2015. She was 31.

An elderly nun whose head was crushed with a boulder during Spain's 1936-1939 Civil War is to be beatified as a martyr with 26 male Dominicans in Seville cathedral.

Bishop David D. Kagan of Bismarck announced June 16 the diocese will open an investigation into "the holiness of life and love for God" of North Dakota native Michelle Christine Duppong, who died of cancer Dec. 25, 2015. She was 31.

"Showing an extraordinary adherence to the faith and forgiveness for their killers, these martyrs met a premature, inhuman death -- they can now rejoice in the glory of eternal light," Spain's Dominican order said in a statement.

Beatifying 10 Polish nuns killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II, it is difficult not to think of the suffering being endured by the people of Ukraine today and the need for peace in the world, said Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for Saints' Causes.

A white marble tomb stands to the left of the altar in Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. It is the only tomb in the whole of the building.