Tag: Holocaust

PHILADELPHIA -- A March 1 Russian military strike on the capital of Ukraine damaged the site of one of World War II's largest massacres...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- The violence of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Jewish people are tantamount to blasphemy, Pope Francis said. "The divine...

HAIFA, Israel — One recent morning, Dr. Maher Haddad discussed dentures with 88-year-old Moshe Bar Haim; sprinkled in the Hebrew conversation were words and...

VATICAN CITY  -- Remembering the Holocaust and its victims is not only an act of solidarity but also serves as a warning to humanity...

Sunday Scripture readings, Nov. 15, 2020 Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time 1) Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 Psalm 128:1-5 2) 1 Thes 5:1-6 Gospel: Mt 25:14-30 We have a measure of...

When Germany surrendered to Allied Forces May 7, 1945, Catholics saw a nation and their church shattered. Adolf Hitler’s destructive reign had turned many Germans...

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born into the Jewish faith, was an atheist, a doctor of philosophy and ultimately became a Carmelite...

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Krystyna Linden does not remember much about the first five years of her life, which she spent in a tiny...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis warned that violence against Jewish people, which reached a state of horror during World War II, is on the...