VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis has put an American priest killed during Guatemala's civil war on the path to possible sainthood by declaring him a martyr. Francis signed a martyrdom decree ...

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Oklahoma Roman Catholic leaders explore the commonalities between Pope Leo XIV and Blessed Stanley Rother, men who each ...

The Rev. Stanley Rother, a priest from the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, served for nearly 15 years in Guatemala before being shot dead during the country’s bloody civil war that divided the ...

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Peter Paul escaped shortly after the beginning of the Civil War and joined the Union Army, dying shortly thereafter. In 1862, Augustus Tolton, along with his mother and two siblings, escaped by ...

As far back as the Civil War, priests accompanied Union troops to battle zones. Today, chaplains are found in military installations, veterans’ hospitals and wherever U.S. military personnel are ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday put Father Augustine Tolton, the first African-American Catholic priest who started life as a slave in the 19th century U.S. South, on the path to sainthood.

The Venerable Augustus Tolton died in 1897, but thanks to a $1 million grant announced in his name Wednesday, the nation’s first Black Catholic priest could nurture and strengthen the vitalit… ...

Rother, one of many priests killed during the Guatemalan civil war, is the first American to be recognized by the Vatican as a martyr. The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints declared that ...