By Courtney Mares Rome: A 19-year-old Spanish teenager who gave his life while protecting the Eucharist was beatified November 7 at a Mass in the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona. “Yesterday in Barcelona Joan Roig Diggle, a lay man and martyr killed at the age of 19 during the SpanishContinue Reading
A 16-year-old peasant girl will be beatified as a martyr in Slovakia, seven decades after she was shot in front of her family for resisting rape by a drunken Soviet soldier. Anna Kolesarova “embodies the faithful layperson living in their family, regularly receiving sacraments, praying the rosary and approaching GodContinue Reading
Denver: In recent years, some Catholics have been concerned by pushes from governments in locations such as Louisiana and Australia who challenge the secrecy of the sacrament of confession, asking that priests betray the solemnity of penitents’ confessions when they hear of serious crimes in the confessional. However, Catholics shouldContinue Reading
New Delhi – Marking the first death anniversary of a young man who prevented a suicide bomber from entering a crowded church in Lahore, a group of Catholics in Pakistan have called for his canonization. The first anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack on St. John’s Catholic Church in Lahore was onContinue Reading
Rawalpindi — Marking the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti on Wednesday, a Pakistani diocese has opened a process of enquiry towards declaring the late politician a martyr. Bhatti, a Catholic and the only Christian in the Pakistani cabinet, worked as the federal minister for minorities and spokeContinue Reading