The room where Fr Stanley Rother was killed is a spine-tinglingly holy place

Laying down one’s life for others is now a category under which a person might be beatified or canonised

The former deputy Labour leader, a 'hardened atheist', was so intrigued by British Catholics he wrote a 600-page history of them

The Archbishop of Rouen announced the news at a Chrism Mass

The Pope will celebrate a Liturgy of the Word in memory of the martyrs of the 20th and 21st centuries on Easter Saturday

The Church's history can be horrifically distressing – I've long warned my first-year theology students about it

The saint's letters prove the first Christians saw Jesus as more than just a prophet and teacher

Martyrdom is an act of witness; it is a way that God has of trying to tell His Church something important, and we must listen