Last year, the Catholic Church in Poland shared a photo commemorating the 81st anniversary of Saint Maximilian Kolbe’s arrest by the Nazis. The image, the last one taken of the saint before his final ...

Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to be executed in place of another prisoner. Like many Catholic ...

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz, is one of the 20th century's most notable saints. But behind his trademark glasses, deep devotion to the ...

RICHARDSON, Texas — Eighty years after the death of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Catholic priest who offered his life in Auschwitz so another man could live, his story is being brought to the big screen ...

St. Maximilian Kolbe is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Josaphat Church in the Queens borough of New York City. The Polish priest gave his life in place of a young father condemned to ...

My dear friend Russell Contreras is the New Mexico-based justice and race reporter for Axios, a devout Catholic — and a troll. We have long mocked each other on social media, mostly to amuse ourselves ...

In February 1941, Father Maximilian Kolbe was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz. He was a Polish Monk who founded a Franciscan order near Warsaw called the Knights of the Immaculate.

When the American military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, 80 years ago on Aug. 9, 1945, the city was completely devastated — more than 40,000 people were instantly killed by the blast as ...