Radio Interview: Sinners and Saints video series February 9, 2026By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Tim Jeffries and Joe Reynolds, producers of the popular video series “Sinners and Saints,” which is now filming its third season.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s beatification moves ahead after 6-year pause February 9, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Venerable Fulton J. Sheen will soon be beatified, now that the Vatican has given the green light, the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, announced Feb. 9. No date or location for the beatification was given.
Meet 5 married couples who are saints February 9, 2026By Katie Yoder Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life, Saints Catholics and people worldwide associate St. Valentine’s feast day with love and romance. Here are five married couples who are saints today because they lived out a vocation of love for each other — and for God.
Sister Thea Bowman’s sainthood moving forward to Vatican review February 7, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Servant of God Thea Bowman’s canonization cause is moving ahead, with a Mass and ceremony marking the closure of the cause’s diocesan phase to be held Feb. 9 at the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in Jackson, Miss.
New musical on life of St. Bernadette, Lourdes visionary, begins U.S. tour in Chicago February 7, 2026By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Saints, World News Following a successful tour in Europe, a newly developed English version of a French musical about Bernadette Soubirous will open in Chicago Feb. 19 before touring nationwide.
Pope Leo XIV urges Christian formators to learn from ‘spiritual giants’ like Augustine February 6, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV urged Christian leaders on Feb. 6 to look to the examples of “spiritual giants” including Ss. Philip Neri, Ignatius of Loyola and Augustine as models for faith formation.
Pope adds feast day of St. John Henry Newman to universal calendar February 3, 2026By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV has added the feast day of St. John Henry Newman, who is “a radiant light for the Church on pilgrimage through history,” to the General Roman Calendar so that “his Optional Memorial be celebrated by all on 9 October.”
Sainthood cause formally opened for northwoods catechist of ‘this wild country’ February 3, 2026By Patricia Kasten Filed Under: News, Saints, World News While sometimes called “Sister Adele,” Brice — who was born Jan. 30, 1831, and whose last name is sometimes spelled “Brise” — remained a laywoman all her life, never taking public religious vows.
Guatemala’s ‘Fray Augusto’ is a martyr of the confessional, vice postulator says February 2, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Saints, Vocations, World News At first glance, the official photo of Venerable Augusto Ramírez Monasterio — known simply as “Fray Augusto” — shows a smiling Franciscan friar standing in a small garden, hands clasped and slightly hidden within the sleeves of his brown habit.
In a moment of Vatican sweetness, Pope Leo receives lambs in ancient St. Agnes tradition January 21, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Adding some sweetness to the usual general audience-focused Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV was presented with two lambs Jan. 21 as part of an ancient Roman Catholic tradition marking the feast of St. Agnes of Rome.
Wisconsin bishop invites faithful to share stories of Marian visionary Adele Brice January 18, 2026By Patricia Kasten OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News A formal inquiry of a 19th-century Belgian-American immigrant woman who witnessed three apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary has begun in the Diocese of Green Bay.
Capuchin friar who was one of last people with direct ties to Padre Pio dies at age 85 January 16, 2026By OSV News The Dialog Filed Under: News, Saints, World News Capuchin Franciscan Father John Aurilia — the former assistant to St. Padre Pio whose final interview last October on the Wilmington’s Diocese’s Catholic Forum broke records as it was viewed nearly 300,000 times — died Jan. 13 in Wilmington. He was 85.
