It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an ...

The Good Mayor By Andrew Nicoll Black & White Publishing £10, 340 pages FT bookshop price: £8 Salvage By Jane F. Kotapish Faber and Faber £12.99, 293 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 The Gone ...

Agnes: Of all the women martyrs, perhaps the most famous, and certainly the youngest (about 12 years of age), her name means “lamb,” though she had the heart and faith of a lion.

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...

Pope should name these four women martyrs By Heidi Schlumpf. 5 minute read Updated 7:01 PM EST, Fri February 6, 2015 Link Copied! ... To me, Romero is already a saint, ...

Floribeth Mora, a Costa Rican woman whose inoperable brain aneurysm purportedly disappeared after she prayed to John Paul II, attends a press conference at the Vatican, Thursday, April 24, 2014.

The newest face of the trans* community may be considered a modern icon, but there were a lot of early Christian martyrs who blurred the line between male and female.

Indeed, were it not for martyrdom, we would have very few child saints. Of course, in the early Church, there were martyr saints such as Tarcisius, Agatha, Agnes and Faith.

It’s a fine line between religious fervor and madness; perhaps there’s no line at all. It’s a question that has been explored time and time again in cinema, from Carl Theodor Drey… ...