The Congregation of Holy Cross has appointed Valentina Culurgioni to be the new postulator for the sainthood cause of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton. The congregation announced Jan. 12 that Culurgioni succeeds Andrea Ambrosi, a civil ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez introduces us to Michael Kniffen, almost 10-years-old at his death on December 31. Michael was diagnosed with lissencephaly, a severe congenital neurological condition known as “smooth brain.” Kathryn writes, “If your faith ...
As the Church and secular calendars once again turn to a new year, many of us wonder what the next months will bring. But we need not despair. Whether we succeed or fail, whether we ...
Pope Francis will beatify Pope John Paul I Sept. 4, 2022, at the Vatican, according to Stefania Falasca, a journalist and vice postulator of the late pope's sainthood cause. In October, Pope Francis had signed ...
A reader asks Monsignor Charles Pope whether or not Russia has been consecrated as Our Lady requested in her apparitions at Fátima: “Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the ...
OSV publisher Scott Richert writes that while the December 26 feast of Saint Stephen has been supplanted by the feast of the Holy Family on the liturgical calendar this year, Catholics would do well to ...
Pope Francis recognized a miracle attributed to Blessed Marie Rivier, a French nun who founded the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, paving the way for her canonization. During a meeting with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect ...
Pope Francis signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Titus Brandsma, clearing the way for the canonization of the 20th-century martyr murdered at the Dachau concentration camp. The Dutch Carmelite friar ...
A young Catholic priest has been beatified as a martyr in Poland, nearly eight decades after he was guillotined by wartime Nazi occupiers for clandestine charity work. Blessed Jan Macha "died, like the grain of wheat, ...
The U.S. bishops agreed Nov. 17 that the sainthood causes for three laypeople from the United States should be advanced by their respective dioceses. Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of Lafayette, Louisiana, presented the causes of ...
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