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St. John Paul II presents a gift to Consolata Sister Leonella Sgorbati in Milan, Italy, in this undated photo. Sister Leonella and her bodyguard were gunned down in September 2006 as they left the children's hospital where she worked in Mogadishu, Somalia. (CNS photo/PH Emmevi, EPA)
FaithNews
Pope Francis recognizes martyrdom of sister killed in Somalia in 2006
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis formally recognized the martyrdom of an Italian Consolata sister murdered in Somalia in 2006 and the martyrdom of a 25-year-old priest in Hungary in 1957.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Pope John Paul I, “the smiling pope,” is on the path to sainthood.
Gerard O’Connell
A new book clarifies mystery of John Paul I’s death.
FaithThe Good Word
All Saints Day is not Lesser Saints Day
Terrance Klein
Today in honoring the saints, we recognize that they have built the church.
People walk near the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 11. Ten days later, Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Saints' Causes, beatified 109 Spanish Claretian missionaries killed during their country's 1936-39 civil war. (CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters)
FaithNews
Martyred Spanish Claretian missionaries offered culture of peace, says cardinal
Catholic News Service
The beatification was a reminder that Christianity offered "a culture of peace and fraternity, not war."
FaithFaith in Focus
A journey through an ever-evolving Catholic Church on El Camino
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Changing churches, confessionals and saints through the centuries
FaithNews
What is to be done with the body of Archbishop Fulton Sheen?
James T. Keane
Sheen's niece has sought to have Sheen’s remains disinterred and moved to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria. The Archdiocese of New York disagrees.
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