Tickets for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen’s Sept. 24 beatification in St. Louis and related events will be available starting the week of June 22.
Cause for Sainthood
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The U.S. bishops gave a unanimous show of support to advance two American canonization causes: a pioneer missionary priest and an entrepreneur-turned-evangelist.
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(OSV News) — A religious sister who immigrated to the U.S. as a child and became known as the “fastest nun in the West” is edging a step closer to possible …
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The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage took a day to encounter the five Franciscan friars known as the Georgia Martyrs, who will be beatified Oct. 31 in Savannah.
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Father Augustus (Augustine) Tolton is now getting his own national shrine in western Illinois where he grew up and once served.
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(OSV News) — The canonization cause for Jesuit Father Walter Ciszek — a Polish American priest who ministered amid years in Soviet captivity — has been terminated, although Vatican’s decision …
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A California-based initiative is working to help speed along sainthood causes among Americans, and to make the canonization process more accessible overall.
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Archbishop McGovern summed up Father Flanagan’s legacy as that of “such a good priest,” one who experienced a call to work with disadvantaged youth.
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During St. Patrick’s season, my thoughts turn to two other Irishmen on the road to sainthood.
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An official closing session of the diocesan phase of the canonization process followed the Feb. 9 Mass, where the cause’s leaders ceremoniously sealed several boxes containing the diocesan phase’s documents …
