A portion of John Nava's tapestry of the communion of saints in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles (Wikimedia Commons/Adam A. Sofen) Happy All Saints Day! While tomorrow, All Souls ...

Pope Francis said Thursday that the Coptic Orthodox martyrs killed by ISIS in 2015 will be added to the Catholic Church’s official list of saints. He also received a relic of the martyrs’ blood as a ...

It’s been a wonderful year for children’s books! My mailbox has filled with great Catholic stories that will capture the imaginations of young girls and boys. Today, I focus on some of the most ...

The third-century Christian author Tertullian said the “blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” Wherever the church has grown and flourished, it is because it has been planted and watered by ...

For a nation founded in a fit of religious rebellion, set up to serve as a city on a hill, America has produced remarkably little first-rate religious art. There are pastoral visions aplenty, and ...

A new children's book aims to tell the heroic stories of saints in a way that captures the interest, and imagination, of Catholic kids. Elizabeth Hanna Pham, a Catholic mother of four boys with ...

Every Halloween, there are Catholic schools that allow their students to dress in costume on the condition that the costumes must be Catholic saints. While this policy might be intended to eliminate ...

Christians are under persecution worldwide and face discrimination in the West that could turn in to more violent opposition, according to the author of a new book on martyrdom. "For 2000 years, ...

The 21 men were beheaded by ISIS on a beach in Libya on Feb. 15, 2015; the Pope received a relic of the martyrs’ blood as a gift from the Coptic Orthodox Church. Pope Francis receives relics of the ...