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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...

Our Lenten Journey, April 7: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

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

New research details Catholic inmates at Auschwitz

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

Smuggled out of Warsaw Ghetto, child spent five years with Catholic...

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

Pope Francis denounces increasing violence against Jewish people

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

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