(The Conversation) — For three weeks in April 2025, my “Theology of Christian Martyrdom” class studied how a group of German students and professors from Munich and Hamburg formed a resistance ...

The Cipriani scandal follows that of Italy's Angelo Becciu, who insisted he could take part in the election of the new pope ...

At the time, the German nurse was working for the International Red Cross. A video recently emerged ... One recent case was that of the Roman Catholic clergyman Hans-Joachim Lohre, who disappeared ...

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His funeral is being held on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. Francis will then be buried, according to his will: in a simple underground tomb at St. Mary Major Basilica. The church is home to his ...

Pope Francis said that for his spiritual message to be credible, the Vatican’s finances had to be credible as well.

Stanisław Maciej Kicman was destined to become a priest — but the path he followed to that vocation was anything but conventional. Born into a loving Catholic family in 1937, the young boy ...

The text represented one of many groundbreaking moments for Vatican II, as Cardinal Augustin Bea — the German Jesuit and ... forcefully indicated, the Catholic Church’s desire for a warmer ...

From flower festivals and patriotic parades to county fairs and hot air balloons taking to the skies, there is so much to do, ...

Catholic college in India fights back against ... who have committed abuse within the diocese since 1945, CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner, reported. According to the 800 ...

It was smuggled into Germany and read in all German Catholic churches at the same hour ... The International Red Cross also remained neutral. Secondly, he knew how powerless he was against Hitler.