The Catholic Church's newest blesseds are six "meek disciples of Christ," who showed heroic courage defending the Eucharist from profanation when French troops sacked their Italian monastery in 1799 and scattered the Blessed Sacrament on ...
While St. Teresa of Avila was outstanding in many ways, her union with Christ through prayer made her an "exceptional woman," Pope Francis said. In a video message April 15 marking the 50th anniversary of the ...
The faded black bonnet with its gently ruffled frill once framed the face of the nation's first American-born saint. The black cap, a familiar sight in portraits of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, rested in a gray ...
A U.S. government forensic team announced March 4 it has identified the remains of Father Emil Kapaun, a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, who was an Army chaplain and died in a Chinese prisoner-of-war ...
A priest related to Princes William and Harry took a major step closer to sainthood when Pope Francis declared him venerable. Like St. John Henry Newman, Passionist Father Ignatius Spencer is considered one of the towering ...
Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board proposes that there is one group of individuals whose stories we as a Church can and should commit to knowing better: American Black Catholics who are on the road to ...
ecognizing their welcome of and witness to Christ, Pope Francis has approved changing the liturgical feast of St. Martha to include her sister and brother, Mary and Lazarus, on the church's universal calendar of feast ...
The Archdiocese of Caracas announced that Jose Gregorio Hernandez, known affectionately as the "doctor of the poor," will be beatified in April. In a video posted to the archdiocese's Twitter account Jan. 24, Father Honegger Molina, ...
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of eight men and women, including the pro-life French geneticist, Jerome Lejeune, and English Sister Elizabeth Prout, founder of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. The pope signed the ...
The Daughters of St. Paul from Pauline Books & Media have recently published a new book: “In Caelo Et In Terra: 365 Days With the Saints.” This book features 365 men and women — saints ...
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