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Legendary and nearly beatified US Army chaplain honoured with statue by Kansas

March 28, 2024

NEW YORK – A Catholic priest from the Diocese of Wichita who served as an Army chaplain in both World War II and the Korean war, risking his life to minister to troops on the front lines, will soon have a permanent statue in his honour at the state Capitol in Kansas. On 22 March,

Italy and the Catholic Church still riven by pernicious politics of memory

February 13, 2024

ROME – Italy’s February 10 “Day of Remembrance” is worth giving more consideration to than might seem immediately obvious to the non-Italian outsider, given the poignant way it captures the politics of memory. On the one hand, this Memorial Day to a cluster of events from an era of the Second World War and its

Priest wins human rights award for genocide research

October 29, 2017

Fr Patrick Desbois has identified more than 600 mass killing sites

Pope to pray for war dead at American cemetery near Rome

October 08, 2017

Holy Father will also visit the site of a mass execution of Italian civilians

The bishop who ordained John Paul II showed how to heroically fight totalitarian atheism

June 16, 2017

Bishop Sapieha became a model for how clergy should live under tyrannical Communism

The end of the ‘Hitler’s Pope’ myth

March 09, 2017

For 50 years, the truth about Pius XII’s battle against Nazism has been suppressed. But new evidence makes his heroism undeniable

Blood of St Januarius fails to liquefy

December 19, 2016

The failure of the saint's blood to liquefy has become associated with previous disastrous events

Faith at the centre of Mel Gibson’s new film

November 07, 2016

Mel Gibson returns to the director's chair after a 10-year absence

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