By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will canonise Titus Brandsma, a Dutch priest, academic and journalist who was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp in 1942 for preaching against the Nazis, the Vatican said on Thursday. Brandsma, who was a member of the Carmelite religious order and served as president of the Catholic university at Nijmegen, began speaking out against Nazi ideology even before World War Two and the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. During the Nazi occupation, he spoke out against anti-Jewish laws. As adviser to the Netherlands’ Catholic newspapers, he urged their editors not...
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