In early centuries, Christians executed in the Roman Empire for refusing to renounce their faith – called martyrs, meaning witnesses – were commemorated by their local communities and referred to as ...

How does someone become a saint in the Roman Catholic Church? How many saints are there? The second question is harder to answer than the first. During the church's first 1,000 years, saints were ...

VATICAN CITY, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel peace laureate who dedicated her life to helping the poorest, is to be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (Reuters) - The body of one of the most popular Roman Catholic saints, the mystic monk Padre Pio, began an overland journey in a crystal coffin on Wednesday to go on ...

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - The faithful gathered at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine here last week to touch holiness in the form of a traveling exhibition of more than 150 sacred relics, including ...

Being the founder of the Jesuits did not stop this great man of faith from suffering from depression or “desolation” as he called it in his Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, which was ...

Name the patron saint of lovers: easy, St. Valentine. The patron saint of travelers: not too hard, St. Christopher. How about a black saint? Stumped? So are many black Roman Catholics, but that's ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Riverside church celebrated its 110 year anniversary Sunday and had a visit from the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. Bishop Michael William Fisher paid a visit to ...

All Saints Catholic Academy and Parish Center in Albany on Friday. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany announced it was closing the school at the end of the year. All Saints Catholic Academy and ...

(The Conversation) — Saints are recognized for exceptional virtue and faith. But some also are commemorated for their scholarship. In early centuries, Christians executed in the Roman Empire for ...