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Possible 2017 release for Terrence Malick film on Catholic martyred by the Nazis

Radegund tells the story of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter

Pakistani Catholics now living in the US describe flight from persecution

They fled their home in the middle of the night after militants demanded they convert to Islam

Coptic Christian teacher shot dead in Egypt

Gamal Tawfiq, 50, was shot in the head by two militants on a motorbike who followed him as he walked from home to work

Associated Press

Will the nun who saved my life be canonised?

My recovery from a 'flesh-eating bug' amazed nurses and defied medical explanation

Mgr Peter Smith

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Priest: prayers to saintly nun saved my life

a glasgow priest whose survival of a “flesh-eating bug” is said to have defied medical explanation has attributed his recovery to the interc...

Cardinal praises Pope’s attitude to dubia

cardinal vincent nichols has expressed his support for pope francis in the wake of questions raised by four cardinals about parts of amoris ...

Pope appoints envoy to Medjugorje faithful

pope francis has appointed a polish archbishop to study the pastoral needs of the pilgrims flocking to medjugorje and the people who live in...

Francis reveals anti-stress secret

pope francis has said that to retain a sense of peace he writes down all his problems in notes to st joseph. during an audience with religio...

Mgr Peter Smith: Will the nun who saved my life be canonised?

i sat in glasgow royal infirmary last summer and the consultant told me that i had cancer: stage 4, aggressive and incurable. when people sa...

Mgr Peter Smith