Among the 10 men and women Pope Francis proclaimed as the Catholic Church’s newest saints is Titus Brandsma, a priest and journalist who stood his ground against Nazi ideology and paid for it with his life.

The group of wives includes widows whose husbands’ dead bodies have yet to be recovered and are pleading for international help so they can give their husbands a Christian burial.

The pope said that during his pontificate, Pope John Paul “confessed faith, hope and charity as God-given virtues” and insisted that care for the poor and needy was “an infallible part of the apostolic faith.”

“Of the many words that Pope Francis has introduced or reintroduced to our lexicon, one of his frequently employed terms (often left untranslated) is ‘parrhesia,’ described as boldness or conviction, which the Holy Father insists is vital to the proclamation of the Gospel today.”

Last summer, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis employees began looking into what was already known about its involvement with boarding schools, including one it ran in west-central Minnesota in the late 1800s. Efforts are underway to share archdiocesan records with the tribal nations.

While the first Saturday in May’s running of the Kentucky Derby boasts the fastest two minutes in sports, Churchill Downs’ backside chapel hosts what might be the fastest Sunday Mass in the Archdiocese of Louisville.

In 2022, this international association that coordinates assistance for Catholic missionary priests, brothers, and nuns in mission areas, is still going strong and renewed attention has been given to its founder, who will be beatified May 22.

English and Welsh bishops said the U.K. government is unfairly punishing the migrants for the crimes of trafficking gangs by sending the them to Rwanda to have their asylum applications processed.