Catholic Church Reportedly Closer to Getting its First Samurai Saint
Cardinal Maeda revealed the investigations after a special Mass in honor of Takayama in the Manila Cathedral in the Philippines.
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All Creation Waits: New Kids’ Book Highlights Saints’ Animals and Care of Nature
BOOK PICK: ‘Saintly Creatures: 14 Tales of Animals and their Holy Companions’
Full Text: Pope Francis’ Homily for the Canonization Mass of 10 Saints
‘By embracing with enthusiasm their vocation — as a priest, as a consecrated woman, as a layperson — they devoted their lives to the Gospel. They discovered an incomparable joy, and they became brilliant reflections of the Lord of history.’
Pope Francis: Rayan, The Boy Stuck in a Well in Morocco, Shows Beauty of ‘Saints Next Door’
'This shows us that today, in the midst of so much bad news, there are good things, there are ‘saints next door,’' Pope Francis proclaimed.
‘They Might Be Saints’ Highlights Holy American Lives
With nearly 100 active causes for canonization currently in the United States, most of which are in the first stage of “Servant of God,” O’Neill puts the spotlight on the six American blesseds and 18 American venerables who one day might be raised to the Church’s official canon of saints.
Vatican Regulates the Role of Postulator in Saints’ Causes
In an interview with Vatican News last week, Cardinal Semeraro said that “the figure of the postulator and the office he holds continue to be important and, at the same time, delicate.”
Pope Francis Advances Sainthood Cause of Italian Catholic Priest Who Saved Jews in WWII
Like St. Maximilian Kolbe, Father Cortese was a Franciscan friar who directed a Catholic publication and was tortured and killed by the Nazis.
Black Elk: Future Patron Saint and Model for Instituted Lay Catechists?
Nicholas Black Elk, a Lakota holy man and catechist, up for sainthood has captured the attention of Pope Francis and could be a model for bishops instituting lay catechists.
Sainthood Cause Advances of Priest Called ‘Supernatural Man’ by St. Maximilian Kolbe
Fr. Veuthey himself once wrote to one of his confrères in 1944: “The supernatural is unfathomable: you have to live it to enter in.”
Pope Francis Recognizes Miracle Attributed to Italian Laywoman Who Died in 1997
Known to all as “Nuccia,” Gaetana Tolomeo was confined to a bed or a chair for the 60 years of her life.
