Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

Even as he adopted the name of Francis after St. Francis of Assisi, he showed his commitment to the Franciscan vows of ...

The commission, based in the Vatican's saint-making office, has gathered hundreds of cases, with a view to highlighting them alongside officially recognised martyrs of the church, who are on the ...

On 31 October 2017 it will be five hundred years since Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, initiating the Protestant Reformation. In fact, as scholars ...

Elton’s Cromwell was a fundamentally ‘secular’ figure, more concerned with governance than godliness, but Susan Brigden (another former student) argued some years ago that Cromwell was a convinced and ...

Pope Francis has canonised 911 saints in 68 causes, which includes the 813 Martyrs of Otranto as a group. On May 12, 2013, Pope Francis announced the canonisation of Antonio Primaldo and his ...

He vowed to place less emphasis on "small-minded rules" or the "disjointed multitude of doctrines" and more on the "endless possibilities of grace." ...

Rooted in ancient Christian and Roman customs, the Novendiales is a period of nine consecutive days dedicated to mourning the ...

Pope Francis, influenced by the martyrs of the Latin American church, prioritized the needs of the poor and marginalized. In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín ...

Towards the end of the Requiem Mass for Pope Francis, an image emerged which seemed to capture the essence of what we’d heard ...