A possible miracle may be attributed to Tennessee priest’s intercession August 12, 2021By Dan McWilliams Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News As Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, presided at a memorial Mass and reentombment of the body of Father Patrick Ryan at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, a possible miracle attributable to the Chattanooga priest may already be in the works.
Body of priest who ministered to yellow fever victims exhumed in Tennessee August 11, 2021By Dan McWilliams Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News At 10:50 on the morning of July 27, Father J. David Carter’s voice rang out at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chattanooga: “We are about to lift the coffin from the grave.” And with that, the sainthood cause of Father Patrick Ryan, who has the title “Servant of God,” took a crucial step, as the exhumation of his remains for reentombment at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul could proceed.
Take me to Padre Pio August 10, 2021By Suzanna Molino Singleton Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Saints, Snippets of Faith A small New Jersey shrine to St. Padre Pio is a beautiful spot for prayer and reflection.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Blessed Stanley Rother July 26, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints Christopher Gunty speaks with Monsignor Thomas Tewes, a classmate of Father Rother, and Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda, who wrote the definitive biography of Father Rother.
Polish nuns killed by Soviet army as World War II ended showed courage July 21, 2021By Jonathan Luxmoore Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Ten Polish nuns have been approved for beatification as martyrs 76 years after they were killed while resisting rape and facing other atrocities by Soviet soldiers in the final months of World War II.
Nun slain by three teenagers in satanic sacrifice beatified as martyr June 7, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News A nun who was brutally stabbed in a satanic sacrifice was beatified a martyr June 6 in the northern Italian city where she served.
President’s daughter sees connections to Mother Seton in her life’s journey June 3, 2021By Kevin Shinkle Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints “The question for me is not why I identify with Elizabeth Ann Seton, but how on earth else could I not?” Luci Baines Johnson said. “She resonates with me.”
Virtual tours open doors of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Emmitsburg shrine to the world May 26, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints When the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg closed its historical buildings to public tours last year due to the pandemic, its team opened a window, a Zoom window.
RADIO INTERVIEW: The “Little Way” of St. Thérèse of Lisieux/Holy parents of a saint May 24, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Parenting, Radio Interview, Saints Learn more about the “Little Way” of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and how she was influenced by her holy parents, Ss. Louis and Zelie Martin.
Polish pilgrims mark anniversary of attempt to assassinate St. John Paul May 13, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News “How difficult it is to forget the bang of the would-be assassin’s gunshots, which in a single moment could have put an end to this extraordinary pontificate,” the cardinal said.
Theologian: Polish cardinal’s beatification reminder of tests of communism April 28, 2021By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, scheduled to be beatified Sept. 12, was ready to seek agreements in a Christian spirit, but also firmly believed “certain boundaries could not be crossed,” said a leading theologian and political scientist.
Pope prays newly beatified martyrs inspire greater fidelity to God April 19, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church’s newest blesseds are six “meek disciples of Christ,” who showed heroic courage defending the Eucharist from profanation when French troops sacked their Italian monastery in 1799 and scattered the Blessed Sacrament on the floor while searching for any valuables they could carry away, Pope Francis said.
