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For Father Witold Burda, the postulator of the canonization cause of the Ulma family, the last six years of his life have been a unique journey. In a conversation with OSV News, Father Burda shares the joys and challenges leading to the Sept. 10 beatification of these Polish martyrs in Markowa, Poland, the family’s home village.

With a beatification Mass for the Ulma family set for Sept. 10, the Vatican emphasized that all nine members of the Polish family are considered martyrs, including the child that was born during the massacre.

Being a Catholic does not destroy or replace a person's culture, and wanting to share the Gospel message does not mean wanting to take someone's allegiance away from their nation.

Catholic aid workers are rolling up their sleeves to help tens of thousands after Tropical Storm Idalia slammed into the nation's Southeast.

"These people will fix you. Come back when you're healed," a trusted priest told Simon Kent Fung, handing him a note with contact information for therapists. The priest knew Fung wanted to enter the seminary and Fung had just confided that he was attracted to men.

The Texas Supreme Court on Aug. 31 moved to allow a state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender to go into effect.

Greeted with "aaruul," a dried yogurt cheese, which he tried, Pope Francis arrived in Ulaanbaatar for a four-day visit.

Providing abundant promise for the victims of wildfires on Maui has been the "miraculous" survival of Lahaina's Maria Lanakila Church, which was unscathed by the flames that destroyed the historic town.