Pope clears way for beatification of Georgia martyrs January 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has formally recognized that five Franciscan missionaries ministering in what is now the U.S. state of Georgia were killed for their faith.
Sister Clare Crockett, who lived ‘exceptional, holy life,’ begins road to sainthood as cause opens January 18, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, Vocations, World News Her wide smile and eyes beaming with joy are a signature of Sister Clare Crockett, a 33-year-old Northern Irish nun, who tragically died in the 2016 Ecuador earthquake.
A Eucharistic Word: Holiness January 18, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Saints Truly in the Eucharist, as the saints came to know, we find the answer to our searching, the satisfaction to our yearning, the meaning of it all.
Priesthood is a gift meant to be given for others, pope says January 16, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, Vocations, World News A priestly vocation is not merely a path toward salvation for the one who is called but should be a continuous self-gift that aligns each priest’s life with God’s plans for them, Pope Francis said.
Catholics turn to Mary and saints amid Los Angeles wildfires January 14, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, Saints, World News Several Catholics who have fled the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have been praying for the intercession of Our Lady of Champion, who once saved a rural Wisconsin shrine from a devastating inferno.
Spain’s famed Camino wraps up the year with a record half million pilgrims January 8, 2025By Andreas Drouve OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The boom in the number of pilgrims on Spain’s famous El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, hit a record of almost half a million last year. Among them were 38,000 Americans.
‘Jesus was her everything’: The ‘Fastest Nun in the West’ moves closer to canonization January 7, 2025By Zoey Maraist OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Saints, World News A religious sister who befriended Billy the Kid, calmed a lynch mob and testified against human trafficking is one step closer to canonization.
Family credits ‘Little Cajun Saint’ for healthy ‘miracle child’ born after dire diagnosis January 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News A young Catholic family in New York state is crediting their newborn baby’s apparent healing in the womb from a potentially fatal diagnosis to the intercession of Charlene Marie Richard, a devout Catholic girl who died of leukemia in Louisiana — and is now on the path to possible sainthood.
National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton opens celebration of 50th anniversary of patron’s canonization January 6, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Saints Archbishop William E. Lori helped the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton open a new exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of its patron’s canonization with a Mass Jan. 4 on her feast day.
National Seton Shrine kicks off 50th anniversary canonization of ‘One of Us’ January 3, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints As the first native-born American saint, the 50th anniversary of Mother Seton’s canonization will be celebrated with a full year of spiritually immersive activities — beginning Jan. 4 with an EWTN-televised Mass celebrated by Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori — at the pilgrimage destination bearing her name.
How Father Tolton handled travails, transitions is model for living out the faith, says bishop December 29, 2024By Jay Nies OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, Saints, World News A Missouri native, Father Augustus Tolton is recognized as the first African American to be ordained a priest. A candidate for sainthood, he has the title of “Venerable.”
The story of the L.A. miracle that will make Pier Giorgio Frassati a saint December 24, 2024By Pablo Kay OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News This odd combination of circumstances would eventually prove providential, confounding medical authorities, changing the life of this anonymous seminarian, and forever tying him to another young man who had been dead for almost 100 years: Pier Giorgio Frassati, who in August will be declared a saint of the Catholic Church on account of the miracle of Juan Gutierrez’s ankle.
