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Czech chemist Jan Rocek shares story of survival with Padua Academy...

WILMINGTON — Although he experienced these atrocities nearly 80 years ago, Jan Rocek was able to describe in some detail the experience of himself...

St. Maximilian Kolbe’s dark cell at Auschwitz gave me a lesson...

As I stood at the bars of the chilling confines of St. Maximilian Kolbe‘s cell within the walls of Auschwitz, I couldn’t help but...

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...

102-year-old convert Sister Canetti ‘must’ tell her story of being a...

JERUSALEM-- When the raging ocean finally spit young Regine Canetti out, lifting her up a huge wave onto the thorny coast of the Turkish...

Russian assault in Ukraine damages Babi Yar shrine to remember Jews...

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

Pope Francis in Slovakia: ‘Condemn all violence and every form of...

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

Holocaust survivors receive free care from Israeli Catholic dentist

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...

Pope Francis honors Holocaust victims on International Day of Commemoration

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

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: God’s generosity is real and knows...

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...

German Catholics among those who suffered under Nazis

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...

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