sainthood
Padim Ciço, Brazil’s greatest folk saint, to be beatified
By Eduardo Campos Lima — September 7, 2022
SAO PAULO (RNS) — Almost 90 years after his death, the once excommunicated priest may officially become a saint.
Pope rallies from knee pain to proclaim 10 new saints
By Nicole Winfield — May 15, 2022
ROME (AP) — Sunday's ceremony was evidence that Francis is still able to still walk, but appears to be taking it as easy as possible to let the ligaments heal before an intense period of travel starting in July.
There are no African American saints. A lay Catholic group seeks to change that.
By Alejandra Molina — December 15, 2021
(RNS) — ‘It is embarrassing to many of us that in the church where we worship, there are no United States African American saints recognized by the highest church authorities.’
Admirers still urging sainthood for chaplain killed on 9/11
By David Crary — September 6, 2021
(AP) — Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with New York’s fire department, left a uniquely complex legacy that continues to evolve 20 years after his death.
An architect of European unity moves ahead on sainthood path
By Frances D'emilio — June 21, 2021
(AP) — Schuman, whom the Catholic Church calls 'a man of faith', died in 1963 after serving as the first president of the forerunner of the European Parliament.
US army chaplain Emil Kapaun advancing toward sainthood
By Joanne M. Pierce — March 10, 2021
(The Conversation) — Can the Catholic Church canonize someone whose spiritual heroism came during the violence of war?
A new book urges canonization of Fulton Sheen, father of electronic Mass
By Claire Giangravé — April 6, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Sheen's niece hopes to restart the New York bishop's journey to canonization after it was abruptly halted last December.
Dorothy Day — ‘a saint for our times’
By Sandra Yocum — December 5, 2018
(The Conversation) — Dorothy Day, who died 38 years ago this week, was able to discern beauty in the midst of her harsh and demanding life. In that, she has a lesson for the times we live in.
Vatican considers sainthood for Lakota Sioux medicine man
By Kirk Petersen — August 21, 2018
(RNS) — The Catholic Church could get its second Native American saint if a Vatican research trip to South Dakota this month leads to confirmation of two miracles performed by Nicholas Black Elk, a Lakota Sioux medicine man born in the Civil War era.
New coalition seeks sainthood for five African-Americans
By Kirk Petersen — July 31, 2018
(RNS) — The five candidates all are in the early stages of the journey to sainthood.
Polish priest set for sainthood criticized for anti-Semitism
By Monika Scislowska — July 5, 2018
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It's not clear if the protests will derail the sainthood cause of Cardinal August Hlond, but in the past the Vatican has taken such protests seriously and at the very least put the cases up for closer review.
Jewish group questions sainthood for WWII-era cardinal
By Paul O'Donnell — May 23, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A leading Jewish organization has criticized the Vatican's decision to move World War II-era Cardinal August Hlond along the path to possible sainthood, saying the Polish primate was 'extremely' hostile to Jews and failed to condemn a 1946 pogrom.
Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 38 years ago. Soon he’ll become El Salvador’s first saint.
By Michael E. Lee — March 24, 2018
(The Conversation) — On March 23, 1980, Romero concluded his Sunday sermon with an appeal to Salvadoran soldiers to cease killing their fellow citizens. He was killed the next day.
Pope approves sainthood for slain Salvadoran Archbishop Romero
By Nicole Winfield — March 7, 2018
(AP) — Francis unblocked Romero’s stalled sainthood case at the start of his pontificate and declared him a martyr in 2015.
‘Faithful’ Detroit priest beatified by Catholic Church
By Ed White — November 19, 2017
DETROIT (AP) — More than 60,000 people attended a Mass in Detroit where Father Solanus, as he was known, has an extraordinary following, decades after his death in 1957.
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