Saints

This week’s ‘Magnificat’ moves from the Season of Creation through the witness of ordinary saints to the enduring life of prayer

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Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook give St Edmund Campion a remarkably fair hearing, but the evidence also challenges some of their assumptions about supposed Catholic subversion

Andrew Cusack

American Martyr explores the unlikely journey of an Oklahoma farm boy who became a missionary priest, learned Tz’utujil and ultimately died for the people he had come to love

Christine Rousselle

“American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story” will screen in cinemas across the United States from August 25 to 27

Christine Rousselle

From St John Eudes and St Bernard of Clairvaux to Pope St Pius X and the Queenship of Mary, the week points towards devoted service and eternal life

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The historical evidence for the Assumption may be late and uncertain, but Catholic belief rests on more than historical argument alone

Fr Dwight Longenecker

The examples of St Clare, St Maximilian Kolbe and other holy witnesses prepare us to celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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From St Matthew to St Dominic, this week’s readings in ‘Magnificat’ reveal how grace transforms detours, trials and unexpected choices

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The Society of Jesus once united missionary courage, intellectual discipline and defence of the oppressed, but its modern identity has become far less certain

Luke Collins

The White House commemorated the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Rother, describing his life of missionary service as a testament to America's tradition of religious freedom

Christine Rousselle