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Denver healing could move a nun jailed by communists toward sainthood

August 9, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 2

The postulator of Blessed Zdenka Schelingová’s cause has delivered the dossier on an alleged Denver healing to the archbishop of Bratislava, advancing her path toward canonization. […]

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Why monks outlive other men: Inside a 30-year study of European monasteries

July 25, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 29

A long-running study of German and Austrian monasteries suggests that much of the gap between how long men and women live comes down to how men live, not to biology. […]

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Czech court to weigh clearing cardinal jailed by communists

July 11, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 0

A district court will weigh whether Cardinal Štěpán Trochta, imprisoned by the Nazis and later by the communists, was unlawfully interned in the 1950s. […]

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Pope Leo XIV blesses Slovak pilgrimage as thousands mark Sts. Cyril and Methodius feast

July 6, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 1

Cardinal Ladislav Nemet called the faithful to their Christian roots in Nitra as tens of thousands honored Sts. Cyril and Methodius on July 5 across Slovakia and the Czech Republic. […]

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Prague cathedral inaugurates new organ in rare ‘awakening’ ceremony

June 17, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 1

During the inauguration, Prague’s archbishop performed an unusual rite of “awakening” the new organ, addressing the instrument and asking it to fill the cathedral with music. […]

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Czech court clears archbishop persecuted by communist regime

June 15, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 0

More than six decades after Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha died under communist internment, a Czech court has formally recognized his imprisonment as unlawful. […]

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Cardinal Czerny beatifies Czech priests killed by communists, hints more may follow

June 8, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 1

Cardinal Michael Czerny declared Fathers Jan Bula and Václav Drbola the Czech Republic’s first martyrs of communism — and signaled that more such causes may follow. […]

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Prague archbishop, German ambassador mark post-WWII massacre

June 4, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 0

During the Diocese of Litoměřice’s Year of Reconciliation, Archbishop Stanislav Přibyl led a pilgrimage and Mass honoring hundreds killed in Czechoslovakia in 1945. […]

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Vatican cardinal returns to native city for beatification of priests killed by communists

June 1, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 1

Cardinal Michael Czerny, whose family fled communism, will preside as two executed priests become the first martyrs of communism beatified in the Czech Republic. […]

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Defending marriage ‘is not against anyone’s dignity,’ Polish bishops say

May 29, 2026 Bohumil Petrík 1

As an EU court presses member states to recognize same-sex “marriages,” Poland’s bishops insist defending marriage takes nothing from anyone’s dignity. […]

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