Saints

One requirement for “doctor of the church” title is the person must be eminent in doctrine and their writings must be faithful to church teaching.

As Venezuelans await the upcoming canonization of the South American country’s first saints — Blessed José Gregório Hernández and Blessed María Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez — both the church and …

“No matter what your vocation, no matter the highways and byways of your life, chances are that St. Elizabeth Ann Seton walked the same road.”

(OSV News) — If St. Elizabeth Ann Seton‘s life was written as a Hollywood screenplay, a script doctor might say it was simply too tragic for audiences to believe — let …

Pier Giorgio Michelangelo Frassati, born April 6, 1901, in Italy, will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 7; he is being called a saint for our times.

At age 10, Blessed Frassati received his first holy Communion; two years later, he asked to be able to receive Communion daily.

The 19th-century theologian, intellectual and preacher journeyed from Anglicanism to Catholicism, powerfully shaping religious thought in both faith traditions.

St. Thomas More, one of the most admired statesmen in Europe, gained international recognition for “Utopia,” his satirical work about a perfect state.

(OSV News) — “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” St. Augustine’s famous words addressed to God introduce his account of how a headstrong, self-indulgent young man became one …

(OSV News) — A saint, the mother of a slain journalist, a young girl with autism and a tiny mouse are all among the stories celebrated by an annual award that …