Tag: sainthood

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of eight men and women, including the pro-life French geneticist, Jerome Lejeune, and English Sister...

VATICAN CITY — The saints are “the true light of the church,” so before they are proposed to all Catholics for imitation and veneration,...

PEORIA, Ill. -- As Bonnie Engstrom watched lifesaving measures being taken for her son, who had been born just moments before without a pulse...

PEORIA, Ill.  -- With "overwhelming joy," Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced July 6 that Pope Francis had approved a miracle attributed to...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of three women and recognized the martyrdom of 14 religious sisters who were killed during...

"I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth," said St. Therese of Lisieux, as noted in "The Final Conversations." And so she...

The gunman who fired the shot in El Salvador March 24, 1980, that killed San Salvador's revered Archbishop Oscar Romero while he celebrated Mass...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will preside over a consistory to approve several canonizations, the Vatican announced. The May 19 consistory, which the Vatican announced...

Catholic News Service ROME   -- Blessed Paul VI will be declared a saint in late October at the end of the Synod of Bishops...

Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The seven new saints of the church were holy not because of their own efforts but because of...