Cause for Sainthood

(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 …

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.

Father Augustus (Augustine) Tolton is now getting his own national shrine in western Illinois where he grew up and once served.

(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 …

A California-based initiative is working to help speed along sainthood causes among Americans, and to make the canonization process more accessible overall.

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.

During St. Patrick’s season, my thoughts turn to two other Irishmen on the road to sainthood.

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 …

The path to beatification for Archbishop Sheen has been anything but smooth.

“It’s pretty cool,” James recently told OSV News, adding that having a role in Archbishop Sheen’s sainthood cause makes him feel “special.”