St. Ita in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood will now display relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe. John Paul the Second once called Kolbe the “patron saint of our difficult century.” The saint ...

Last year, the Catholic Church in Poland shared a photo commemorating ... his fellow Franciscans and with society at large. St. Maximilian Kolbe. Wikimedia Commons/CNA The second reason is that ...

His name was Maximilian ... Kolbe was about 10 years old. At the time, the family had moved to another small town in Poland called Pabianice. Here, there was a small church dedicated to St ...

As World War II raged around him in Poland, St. Maximilian Kolbe fought ... of the Church and those recommended to you. Amen.” Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency.

Music from a choir filled the lobby of Stone Lakes Elementary School as members of St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church greeted their fellow parishioners. As more people filed in during a recent ...

St. Maximilian Maria ... At the age of 16, Kolbe adopted the religious name "Maximilian." Kolbe himself then joined the Conventual Franciscans, a Catholic religious order, studying in Lviv ...

The Auschwitz camp photo of Franciszek Gajowniczek, the man whose life was spared when St. Maximilian Kolbe offered to ... extensively on Germany's Catholic Church for Catholic News Service.] ...

How about Catholic female producers ... Mary plays a prominent role in this family, as does St. Maximilian Kolbe's devotion to her. Can you tell us more about that without spoiling it?

A reported occurrence under investigation by the Archdiocese of Hartford as a possible miracle at a Roman Catholic church ... pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish, which includes St. Thomas ...

A brilliant idea! What about Rome and the young Kolbe? There are, in fact, two other places in Rome that were important for the young St. Maximilian. The first is the church of Sant’Andrea della ...