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Small Polish town prepares for beatification of whole family killed for saving Jews

September 06, 2023

KRAKÓW, Poland – Around 11:30 am on September 1, a woman approached the Ulma family grave in a Markowa cemetery, bowed her head, and prayed. She was there primarily to visit her mother’s grave on the anniversary of her death, but also to visit the Ulma family, knowing that her father had played music at

Pope advances sainthood cause of heroic young mother

August 31, 2021

Pope Francis has advanced the cause for sainthood of a young mother who sacrificed her own life to save her unborn child. The Pontiff recognised the “heroic virtues” of Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin, who died from cancer in 1995 at the age of 26 years after she refused chemotherapy for herself so her unborn son,

Sometimes We Must Speak Ill of the Dead

March 03, 2021

Sometimes we need to speak ill of the dead. We may need to speak critically when the dead is a public figure whose memory his ideological allies use to promote their cause. When political people memorialize him in a way that establishes their favored political narrative. We must criticize to try to establish the truth. And as Catholics, we should be critical for another reason.

Pope Francis creates new path to sainthood: offering life for others

July 11, 2017

People who lived a good Catholic life and who freely accepted a certain and premature death for the good of others will now be considered for beatification