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Reunion through the Saints

May 18, 2023 Dawn Beutner 5

On May 11, 2023, Pope Francis announced that twenty-one men who died as martyrs in Libya will be recognized as saints by the Catholic Church. That news would not be news if it weren’t for […]

A ‘bolt out of the blue’: Pope Francis sets off an ecumenical earthquake

May 12, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 48

Pope Francis made history on Thursday, when he added to the Roman Martyrology the names of twenty-one Coptic Christians martyred in Libya in 2015, giving them a date on the Roman calendar of saints and […]