Ahead of the canonization of the Martyrs of Damascus at Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on October 20, Fr. Luke Gregory of ...

Pope Francis created a new group of saints on Sunday, canonizing 14 individuals including the "martyrs of Damascus", killed ...

Pope Francis created a new group of saints on Sunday, canonizing 14 individuals including the "martyrs of Damascus," killed ...

In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious orders and the ...

Bishop Faddoul said the three Maronite laymen stand as role models for all laymen, showing how “courage and perseverance in ...

The Pope has commended the "lives of sacrifice, missionary zeal, and service to the Church" of 14 newly canonized saints.

On October 20, the Catholic Church welcomed 14 new saints. Pope Francis presided over the canonization Mass for 11 Christians ...

Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis was a Quebec-born religious sister who founded the Institute of the Little Sisters of the Holy ...

The celebration of World Mission Sunday is a popular day for a pope to canonize new saints -- not only those who ministered ...

More than 1,000 members of the Consolata orders are traveling to Rome for their founder’s canonization ... according to the Vatican. Martyrs of Damascus, Syria (m. 1860) The Church will also ...

The martyrs of Damascus, three Maronite laymen killed in 1860 together with eight Franciscan friars in a wave of sectarian violence will be canonised tomorrow in Rome. The Syrian faithful will ...

The true Messiah, Pope Francis recalled, is not a king of power and dominance but a Servant-King who came not to be served, ...