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Eucharistic Congress in 1908 was ‘coming of age’ for Church in England

Sep 4, 2018

As Liverpool prepares to host a national Eucharistic Congress, people are looking at the last such event to take place in England: The 1908 International Eucharistic Congress in London.

By Charles Collins

Imprisoned clergy of Dachau remembered for fearless faith

Apr 25, 2018

Catholic priests, brothers and seminarians, along with clergy from other denominations, were sent to Dachau because they posed a threat to the Nazi regime.

By George P. Matysek Jr.

Royal tomb guardians: Capuchin monks guard Austria’s imperial crypt

Apr 4, 2018

The Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) lies beneath a tiny Franciscan church in Vienna. Beneath the simple wood-furnished church is a vast labyrinth of tunnels and chambers, filled with elaborate metal sarcophagi. The coffins hold the remains of 150 royal family members of the Habsburg dynasty.

By Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Catholic Church plays central role as New Orleans marks tricentennial

Feb 5, 2018

The Big Easy is celebrating a big birthday this year: 300 years since New Orleans was founded.

By Beth J. Harpaz

When Americans tried – and failed – to reunite Christianity

Nov 8, 2017

By 1900, atheists and agnostics were becoming more prominent in the United States. Anxious Protestant religious leaders started to argue in favor of a united Christianity to stop the spread of these ideas. For this group, unity meant more than cooperation or mutual understanding. It meant the actual reunion of Protestantism and Catholicism.

By David Mislin

Little-known facts about how Halloween came to be

Oct 26, 2017

Many practices associated with Halloween have origins in the pre-Christian, or pagan, religion of the Celts, the original inhabitants of the British Isles, as well as parts of France and Spain. Because the Celtic harvest festival Samhain led into the cold, fruitless and dark days of winter, the feast was also an opportunity to contemplate death and to remember those who had gone before.

By Associated Press