Tag: World War II
Pope Leo tours Montecassino Abbey, prays at tomb of St. Benedict...
ROME -- Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit to the Benedictine Abbey of Montecassino July 20, where he prayed for peace at the...
Pope Leo praises newly beatified Salesian martyrs killed for their fidelity...
KRAKOW, Poland -- Nine Polish Salesian priests killed in German Nazi concentration camps during World War II were beatified June 6 at the Sanctuary...
‘Triumph of the Heart’ movie tells of martyred St. Maximilian Kolbe...
WARSAW, Poland -- Rather than beginning with St. Maximilian Kolbe's early life or missionary work, new film "Triumph of the Heart" opens at the...
U.S. Army chaplain Father Emil Kapaun now ‘Venerable’ — ‘Another witness...
A Kansas military chaplain who served during two wars is a step further along the path to possible sainthood, thanks to a declaration made...
Wester warns: ‘We are now in a nuclear arms race far...
Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has traveled to Japan on a "pilgrimage of peace" commemorating the 79th anniversary of the...
Pope Francis calls it ‘pointless, hypocritical’ to recall Normandy without condemning...
VATICAN CITY -- Marking 80 years since some 4,400 Allied troops "heroically gave their lives" to the cause of freedom by storming the beach...
World leaders meet in Normandy, France on June 6, marking pivotal...
PARIS -- The Catholic Church in France prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Normandy landings June 6, a date known as D-Day that...
World War II Catholic hero, last survivor of USS Arizona battleship...
By any measure, Louis Anthony "Lou" Conter, a Catholic hero of World War II who died April 1 at his home in Grass Valley,...
‘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...