Martyrdom
My visit to the scene of a martyrdom
The room where Fr Stanley Rother was killed is a spine-tinglingly holy place
Pope Francis has created a new path to sainthood – but is it as radical as it sounds?
Laying down one’s life for others is now a category under which a person might be beatified or canonised
Roy Hattersley: ‘The Church’s real heroes are the little people’
The former deputy Labour leader, a ‘hardened atheist’, was so intrigued by British Catholics he wrote a 600-page history of them
Cause of Fr Jacques Hamel is officially opened
The Archbishop of Rouen announced the news at a Chrism Mass
Francis to pray for modern-day martyrs at island basilica
The Pope will celebrate a Liturgy of the Word in memory of the martyrs of the 20th and 21st centuries on Easter Saturday
Call me a snowflake, but students of Christianity really do need a trigger warning
The Church’s history can be horrifically distressing – I’ve long warned my first-year theology students about it
St Ignatius of Antioch explodes a myth about early Christian history
The saint’s letters prove the first Christians saw Jesus as more than just a prophet and teacher
Four lessons all Catholics can learn from the martyrdom of Fr Hamel
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
There can be no doubt that Fr Jacques Hamel died a martyr’s death
The Church today is living in a time of saints, and of martyrs, and I suspect we shall see rather more of both in the coming weeks and years
‘Do not think holiness is not for us’: a profile of Fr Jacques Hamel
Fr Hamel told his parishioners to aim for sanctity, pointing to the example of the Martin family
