Pope Francis highlights hospitality during Christian unity event
- Jan 25, 2020
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Why Catholicism’s two traumas of the 2010s didn’t draw the same attention
- Dec 29, 2019
Global Christianity, Catholicism very much included, experienced two traumas over the last decade that are both global in scope and historic in their consequences.
Church’s first martyr reveals true meaning of Christmas, Pope says
- Dec 26, 2019
“In the joyous climate of Christmas, the memory of the first Christ killed for the faith could appear out of place,” Pope Francis said. “However, precisely in the perspective of the faith, today’s celebration is in harmony with the true meaning of Christmas.”
Catholic publisher reissuing book with release of Jagerstatter biopic
- Dec 22, 2019
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With the release of a film biography of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, the conscientious objector who was martyred by the Nazis, Orbis Books is reissuing its 10-year-old collection of the Austrian farmer’s letters and other writings from prison.
U.S. brother beatified on soccer fields of Guatemalan school he served
- Dec 9, 2019
Christian Brother James Miller taught students and served as a vice principal at the La Sallian Christian Brothers school in this impoverished pocket of rural Guatemala. He also helped oversee a boarding home for male students from the surrounding indigenous communities.
Work on Wisconsin farm prepared slain brother for service in Guatemala
- Dec 1, 2019
Before donning the habit of a Christian Brother in 1962, Brother James Miller wore the bib overalls of a Wisconsin farm boy.
Tolerant Thailand to welcome pope, but martyrs tale haunts
- Nov 18, 2019
The tale of Thailand’s WWII era martyrs surrounds Pope Francis’s trip to the country.
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