Murdered Polish missionary begins ‘path to sainthood’ April 19, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Poland’s church is seeking the beatification of a young lay missionary, who was stabbed to death in a bungled robbery shortly after starting work with Catholic nuns at a children’s home in Bolivia in 2017.
St. Teresa of Kolkata’s motherly wisdom April 11, 2024By Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints Mother Teresa lived to satiate the thirst of Jesus on the cross. She accomplished this through her prayers and through her loving hands as she ministered to the sick and suffering.
Pope marks 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s stigmata April 5, 2024By Cindy Wooden Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The wounds of Christ’s passion and death and the stigmata given to some Christians over the centuries are reminders of “the pain Jesus suffered in his flesh out of love for us and for our salvation,” Pope Francis said.
Six well-known converts from Christianity’s earliest days to now March 27, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Saints, World News As Catholic converts around the world enter the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil, here’s a look at well-known converts who have had a significant impact on the Catholic church.
Poland marks 80 years since Ulma family’s death, sees ‘beautiful graces received’ through them March 24, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News As Poles commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of Blessed Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with their seven children, the world, six months into their beatification, is stunned to learn about the martyrs from the village of Markowa, who are already working little miracles in peoples’ lives.
‘Sober St. Patrick’s Day’ a ‘rip-roaring’ way to revere Ireland’s beloved saint March 15, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News “Sober St. Patrick’s Day” is set to mark its 13th year of celebrating Irish arts, culture and food — minus the alcohol — following New York’s annual parade for the beloved patron saint of the Irish and Irish diaspora, whose feast has become one of the year’s biggest days for drinking.
Pope advances sainthood causes, including daughter of U.S. author March 14, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of U.S. Sister Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and he recognized the martyrdom of a German priest executed by the Nazis and a German nun and her 14 companions who were raped and murdered by Russian soldiers during World War II.
Documentary covers FBI file kept on Archbishop Sheen March 14, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Saints Nearly 75 years after he stopped teaching at The Catholic University of America in Washington, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) can still fill a campus auditorium.
People touched by adoption look to St. Joseph in national novena March 14, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Saints, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is offering a March 10-18 novena to the foster father of Jesus, ahead of the saint’s March 19 feast day.
Saints are not ‘exceptions,’ but examples of humanity’s virtue, pope says March 13, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The saints are not unreachable “exceptions of humanity” but ordinary people who worked diligently to grow in virtue, Pope Francis said.
Polish diocesan phase closes in cause of Catholic midwife who delivered babies at Auschwitz March 11, 2024By Filip Mazurczak OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Stanislawa Leszczynska, a Polish midwife imprisoned at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi Germany-occupied Poland, delivered 3,000 babies of different nationalities and treated them and their mothers with heroic humanity.
Pope: Jesus showed acts of mercy to inspire others to follow suit March 8, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News When it comes to inspiring people’s actions, Jesus knew that being an example to others is more important than “a flood of words,” Pope Francis said.
