A group of 50 French Catholics who were killed by the Nazis in the Second World War were beatified at the Cathedral of ...

Fifty French Catholics killed under German Nazism were beatified Dec. 13, 2025, during a Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris -- an event that recognized their witness of faith during World War II.

Pope Leo XIV established that the feast day of the 50 new blessed martyrs, belonging to about 30 French dioceses, will be May ...

In the first instance, 124 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War were beatified in a celebration presided over by Cardinal ...

His beatification had been scheduled for Dec. 21, 2019, in Peoria, Illinois, before its postponement, a move that was scandalous, given the stage of the cause.

Estonia celebrated a historic milestone Sept. 6 when Archbishop Eduard Profittlich, a German-born Jesuit, became the country's first Catholic to be beatified. At the time of his installation, he was ...

Estonia celebrated a historic milestone Sept. 6 when Archbishop Eduard Profittlich, a German-born Jesuit, became the country's first Catholic to be beatified. At the time of his installation, he was ...

Through the pouring rain the people came, some walking on their own, others with canes or pushed in wheelchairs. The sick and the poor, young and old, men, women and children, thousands of people ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Pope Francis’ legacy looms large in metro Detroit for his honoring of a beloved priest whose work amongst the poor resounded through generations ...

Clergy attend the beatification Mass of Carlo Acutis in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi in Assisi, Italy, Oct. 10, 2020. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Assisi- Nocera Umbra- Gualdo ...

Pope Francis gives the homily during a Mass marking the 400th anniversary of the canonizations of Sts. Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila, Isidore of Madrid and Philip Neri, at the ...

Former President Donald Trump continued his appeal to the Polish American community by honoring a Polish Catholic priest who was murdered by the communist Polish security services. In a post on his ...