The men and women (and one young child) featured in these pages experienced both joy and suffering — loneliness, sickness, ...

In June of 1980 a bus full of devout Catholics left Albany on the first leg of a trip to Italy. This was not a sightseeing ...

A man who spent decades serving homeless people in Albuquerque could now be on his way to sainthood. “The funny thing is, I don’t think Brother Mathias would want to be a saint. It wasn’t about him, ...

Fr. Emil Kapaun, a military chaplain who served during two wars, was decreed "Venerable" by the Vatican's Dicastery for the ...

Bridging science and religion, forensic researchers spent nearly a decade identifying the remains of a Croatian nun with DNA evidence.

The Catholic Diocese of Wichita announced on Monday that Father Emil Kapaun has been named “venerable.” This is a title given to a person in the Catholic Church who is considered to have lived a ...

It could be years before Kapaun could reach full sainthood, said the Rev. John Hotze, the Wichita Catholic priest who has spent years documenting Kapaun’s cause for sainthood. Hotze has done ...

St. Patrick is as a Roman Catholic figure, but a church in Grevena, in northern Greece, has always celebrated him.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Kansas priest who died while serving others in the Korean War is another step closer to sainthood. Pope Francis has recognized the offering of life of Reverend Emil ...