Tolton ambassadors renew goal to promote, pray for famed Black priest’s canonization July 18, 2025By Catherine Odell OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Saints, World News Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, supporters of Venerable Augustus Tolton (1854-1897) gathered in South Bend to pray, discuss and recommit to promoting his cause for sainthood.
How and why to laugh like a saint July 17, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints Hearing that Ignatius’ rooms were full of laughter is a good reminder at a time when so many Americans are feeling anxious. We are, after all, in a Jubilee year of hope. We are Pilgrims of Hope. But I, like many, struggle with hope.
Church of England weighs proposal to place St. Thomas More’s skull in shrine for veneration July 16, 2025By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.
The fisherman and the pharisee June 25, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints Peter and Paul could not have been more different from each other. But the liturgical wisdom that brought these two towering saints together in a shared feast underscores the fact that the church needed both the fisherman and the Pharisee — and still does.
Visiting Upstate New York’s National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs June 22, 2025By Cecilia Hadley Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Saints, World News Walking through the serene green spaces of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, N.Y., it is hard to imagine the scene that greeted St. Isaac Jogues and St. René Goupil at the same site in 1642.
How a Norbertine nun’s visions led to the feast of Corpus Christi June 19, 2025By D.D. Emmons OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, Saints, World News Beginning in 1208, Jesus would use a pious, holy and humble nun, St. Juliana of Cornillon, as his instrument to take advantage of the increasing visual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and, at the same time, return the People of God to regularly receiving holy Communion. Juliana would be Christ’s source to establish the feast of Corpus Christi.
Fox Nation announces second season for ‘Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints’ June 18, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Saints Fox Nation announced June 11 that an eight-episode second season of the docudrama series “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” will become available for streaming beginning in November and continuing through the spring of next year.
Pope sets Sept. 7 for joint canonization of Blesseds Acutis and Frassati June 13, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced.
Fathers of the Church: The Greek (or Eastern) Fathers June 10, 2025By D.D. Emmons OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The Catholic Church has long honored early Christian leaders, theologians and teachers from the East (Greek) and West (Latin) as Fathers of the Church. Unlike doctors of the church, there is no official list of Church Fathers.
Inspired by millennial soon-to-be-saint, Irish teens created animated Lego-Carlo Acutis film June 8, 2025By Sarah Mac Donald OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News In rural Limerick, three teenage brothers are turning Lego into a tool for evangelization as Blessed Carlo Acutis continues to inspire a new generation of digital evangelists.
Fathers of the Church: The Latin (or Western) Fathers June 7, 2025By D.D. Emmons Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The Fathers helped define, establish and promote the dogmas of the Catholic faith. They not only explained and advanced Christianity, but they stood against those who would defame, deny or exploit our Lord, Jesus Christ.
St. Athanasius, staunch defender of truth at Nicaea and beyond June 6, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News St. Athanasius (296-373) was perhaps the staunchest defender of the truth about Jesus Christ in this age: that he was truly the Son of God, being fully God and fully man. Arius’ heresy had attracted many followers, many of whom were bishops.
