Are you talking about recent times or the whole history of the Church? One could write a book about the good fruits of the Catholic Church. Could we narrow it down a bit?
How about the Catholic martyrs in the 20th century:
Sacred Scripture tells us that God does not try anyone beyond his strength. If so, the Lord seems to have had a very high opinion of Catholics in the century that just ended. More Catholics were probably persecuted, tortured, and martyred than in any previous century.
Martyrdom is not a common notion today, even for Catholics. The recent retrospectives on the past century, for example, highlighted political or social events. But thousands of Catholics were martyred in the 20th century either for refusing to deny their faith or because Catholicism threatened dictatorial regimes like Nazism or Communism. The stories of these brave men and women, almost all of whom peacefully accepted their deaths, forgiving their persecutors, need to be recovered because they are a living witness to a permanent feature of authentic Christian life.
More:
catholicherald.com/royal/royal1.htm
You specifically mentioned Europe, how about the 700 Catholic martyrs who died in Germany in the 20th century:
geocities.com/orthopapism/ahn1.html
And how about the Saints in the 20th century:
stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id728.htm
Here is one excerpt, St. Maximilian Kolbe:
Because he publicly acknowledged himself to be a Catholic priest, Fr. Kolbe, despite his physical frailty, was saddled with the heaviest and most degrading tasks. On one occasion he was severely beaten and left for dead. But he constantly sacrificed himself for those around him, and was their sole comfort. A Protestant camp doctor later said, “In Auschwitz, I knew of no other similar case of such heroic love of neighbor.”
One evening in the summer of 1941 a prisoner managed to break out. The vicious camp rule declared that if any escapee was not caught, ten other prisoners would be killed in reprisal. Now the commandant lined up his prisoners and selected ten victims at random. One of them, a Polish soldier, Sgt. Francis Gajowniczek, cried out in anguish, “What will happen to my family?” Thereupon Fr. Maximilian approached the commandant, doffed his cap politely, and said, “I am a Catholic priest from Poland. I would like to take his place, because he has a wife and children.”
Surprisingly, Commandant Fritsch consented. So Kolbe and the other nine were locked up in the starvation bunker. For two weeks they suffered excruciatingly. But led by the priest, they raised their voices not in pain or blame, but in singing hymns and reciting the rosary. Only the priest and three others were still alive on August 14. They were killed that day by lethal injection.
