"Heroic virtues" of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky & 7 others

Source: Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday received in private audience His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorized the Congregation...

“I Have Now Perceived the One True God”

WHEN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICANS think of the Vikings, they may picture seafarers from Scandinavia sailing to Iceland and Greenland or raiding the coasts of England and Ireland. We rarely think of their inland cousins, whose rule extended into what is Russia today...

Pope Francis’ Catechesis on the Family – 19: Death

The family – 19. Death Dear Brothers and Sisters, Good morning! In the course of our catecheses on the family, today we take direct inspiration from the episode narrated by Luke the Evangelist, which we have just heard (cf. Lk 7:11-15). It is a very moving...