Continuing his catechesis on the connection between Jesus and the Church, the Holy Father spoke today on St. Cyprian, "the first African bishop to achieve the crown of martyrdom." The Pope exhorted ...

How a third century bishop’s response to the plague inspired the church. The man who would become St. Cyprian of Carthage was born in North Africa around 200 A.D. Cyprian did not convert to ...

For the second time in 1,000 years, Roman Catholicism has closed up shop in the land that gave the church such great names as St. Cyprian of Carthage, Tertullian, the heretic Donatus, the virgin ...

If you recall some months ago, in this column, I began discussing the nature of the theologian in the Catholic Church. I stated that there are three distinct styles of being a theologian — one that is ...

Wall-painted icons of saints and martyrs, together with portrayals of important moments in the life of the church and its creator, build up to “a great cloud of witnesses,” said Archpriest David ...