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‘The Work of Mary’ founded during World War II promotes brotherhood,...

VATICAN CITY -- Religious movements within the Catholic Church must advocate for peace and unity in the world at large and within their communities,...

Polish museum on World War II veterans tortured, killed by communists...

WARSAW, Poland -- On Warsaw's Rakowiecka street, flanked by a smart new Metro station and office buildings, a gray cement wall runs mournfully along...

The story no one knew: World War II casualty SSgt. Francis...

(This article first appeared at lehighvalleylive.com) June 20, 1943 was a gorgeous day in the short hills of South Dakota. It was a Sunday, Father's...

At World War II resting place in Italy, Pope Francis reflects...

ROME -- As the sun broke through the morning sky after a torrential downpour in Rome, Pope Francis was wheeled past dozens of gravestones...

Discovery of new list shows several thousands, mostly Jews, hidden in...

ROME -- Catholic and Jewish institutions announced Sept. 7 the discovery of a previously unpublished list of several thousand people, mostly Jews, who were...

Revisiting Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’: Not just a memoir of the suffering...

By Kenneth Craycraft "Night" by Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang Publishing 120 pages, $6.50 In the early spring of 1945, as the end of World War II in...

‘Oppenheimer’ provides opportunity for Catholics to enlighten the public about church’s...

By Kimberley Heatherington The recently released cinema biopic "Oppenheimer" dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world's first atomic bomb which then...

‘Pilgrimage of Peace’ to Japan focuses on global nuclear disarmament: ‘We...

Two U.S. archbishops are leading a "Pilgrimage of Peace" to Japan, hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament. Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New...

Polish church encourages forgiveness, reconciliation, while cautiously backing war reparations

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- The Polish bishops' conference has cautiously endorsed new government demands for $1.29 trillion in reparations from Germany for damage during...

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro remembers the 10 Polish Sisters of St. Elizabeth...

VATICAN CITY-- Beatifying 10 Polish nuns killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II, it is difficult not to think of...

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