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.
Pope sets consistory to consider declaring eight new saints June 4, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Although Pope Francis already set Aug. 3 as the date to declare the sainthood of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope Leo XIV will hold a meeting with cardinals to approve his canonization and that of seven other people.
Pope asks French bishops for ‘new missionary impetus’ June 3, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News In a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the canonization of three French saints — John Eudes, John Vianney and Thérèse of Lisieux — Pope Leo prayed that the anniversary celebrations “will not merely evoke nostalgia for a past that might seem bygone, but that they will awaken hope and give rise to a new missionary impetus.”
Polish nuns beatified for heroic witness amid wartime horror June 2, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News In a solemn ceremony in Braniewo, northeastern Poland, 15 nuns from the Congregation of St. Catherine Virgin and Martyr, were beatified — recognized as martyrs who gave their lives during the final, brutal months of World War II.
How Jesus’ visits to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque spread love of his Sacred Heart June 1, 2025By D.D. Emmons OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News It was a young nun named Margaret Mary Alacoque of the Visitation order at Paray-le-Monial, France, who would become Jesus’ conduit to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart throughout the Roman Church.
Padre Pio’s habit, rare relics coming to U.S. — along with his fellow Capuchins May 28, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News A habit worn by St. Pio of Pietrelcina and other rare relics are coming to the U.S., brought by Capuchin friars from the very monastery that was home to the beloved saint known as Padre Pio.
Story behind beatification of Poland’s Father Stanislaw Streich is one of quiet courage May 22, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News In one of the first beatifications under Pope Leo XIV, the church in Poland is preparing to celebrate the beatification of Father Stanislaw Streich, a humble parish priest murdered at the altar in 1938.
Pope advances sainthood cause of missionaries killed trying to save Indigenous May 22, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV has advanced the sainthood causes of two missionaries whose murders in the Amazon jungle in Ecuador led to the protection of remote Indigenous peoples from encroaching extractive industries.
Lisieux celebrates 100 years since the canonization of ‘The Little Flower’ May 20, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News Catholics in Normandy commemorated the 100th anniversary of St. Thérèse’s of Lisieux’s canonization with three days of solemn celebrations May 16-18. These included a live broadcast of Pope Leo XIV’s May 18 inauguration Mass on giant screens in the Basilica of St. Thérèse in Lisieux.
Thérèse of Lisieux: 100 Years of Light May 19, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints As we have observed the death of Pope Francis, the conclave and the early days of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, the centenary of St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s canonization — May 17, 1925 — has mostly fallen off the radar. But the details of that momentous event are worth remembering.
Praying at St. Monica’s tomb at the Augustinian basilica in Rome May 16, 2025By Mountain Butorac OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News St. Monica is the patron saint of mothers, women in difficult marriages and alcoholics. She died in the fourth century in the coastal town of Ostia, Italy, about 13 miles west of Rome.
Who is St. Augustine, the father of Pope Leo XIV’s order? May 13, 2025By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World 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 of the most important Christian thinkers of all time and a saint — and the father of the Augustinian order, to which Pope Leo XIV belongs.
