Preparing for Saturday’s beatification Mass of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, has been a “spiritual sprint to the finish line” since the Vatican announced five months ago that a ...
Timothy O’Malley writes for the feast of All Saints, Nov. 1, that as Election Day approaches, we, Catholics, “must practice this saintly politics, especially now. We must be poor like Christ, mourn with those who ...
Managing editor Scott Warden shares how he is embracing his path to sainthood. Describing the craziness of family life, he writes: “Every day there’s a broken egg, so to speak. Or a broken glass. Or ...
Bill Dodds says that as we look at life’s ruts, perhaps we need to see it as God does: “It could be you’re exactly where he wants you to be and doing exactly what he ...
Pope Francis has named Italian Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, secretary of his Council of Cardinals, to be the new prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes. The bishop, 72, succeeds Cardinal Angelo Becciu, whom the ...
The sainthood cause of Father Patrick Ryan, who died ministering to people during a yellow fever outbreak in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the 1800s, has taken an important step forward. On Sept. 28, at the Basilica of ...
The beatification of Father Michael J. McGivney, which will take place on October 31, 2020, shows that the ministry of this holy, humble parish priest continues even to this day. Most widely known as the ...
Thousands sang and applauded as Italian teen Carlo Acutis was beatified in a town dear to him and to many Christians around the world: Assisi. During the Oct. 10 beatification Mass, Italian Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the ...
In early October along the pristine medieval streets of Assisi, a city ubiquitous with references to St. Francis, posters bore the image of a different modern saint-in-the-making: Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian tech whiz. Before his ...
The tomb of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who used his computer programming skills to spread devotion to the Eucharist, was opened for veneration before his beatification in Assisi. A statement released by the Diocese ...
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