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by bcadmin | Oct 9, 2022 | Associated Press, Canonization, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis on Sunday denounced Europe’s indifference toward migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea as he elevated to sainthood an Italian bishop and Italian-born missionary.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | Canonization, Canonizations, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, saints and martyrs, St. Peter's Square, Vatican | 0 |
After a long pandemic pause, Pope Francis is scheduled to celebrate a Mass May 15 for the canonization of 10 men and women: Five from Italy, three from France, one from India and one from the Netherlands.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 12, 2022 | Canonization, Featured, News, Sainthood, Saints, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
With the United States being a relatively young country compared with the traditionally Catholic nations, there are very few canonized U.S. saints, especially considering the total number of saints in Church history to be over ten thousand. Through the end of the twentieth century, there had only been eleven canonizations of people who were born, […]
by bcadmin | Dec 13, 2021 | Canonization, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Cause of Saints, News, Pope Francis, saints and martyrs, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis recognized a miracle attributed to Blessed Marie Rivier, a French nun who founded the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, paving the way for her canonization.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 15, 2021 | Canon Law, Canonization, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Causes of Saints, miracles, News, saints and martyrs, Vatican | 0 |
A cardinal or bishop who is a member of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes and anyone officially appointed as a consultant to the congregation cannot serve as the postulator or official promoter of a candidate’s cause for sainthood.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 3, 2021 | Canonization, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Cause of Saints, News, Pope Francis, Saints, Vatican | 0 |
The sainthood causes of seven men and women — including the hermit Blessed Charles de Foucauld and the Indian martyr Devasahayam Pillai — cleared their final hurdle May 3 during an “ordinary public consistory,” a meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally ends the sainthood process.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 19, 2020 | Canonization, Church in the US, lead, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Sainthood cause, University of Notre Dame | 0 |
According to one University of Notre Dame professor, the revelations of the Holy See’s report on laicized ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the totality of the clergy sex abuse crisis are grounds enough to increase the number of years after a person dies before a sainthood cause can be opened.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 19, 2020 | Blessed, Canonization, Canonization Mass, Father McGivney, Father Michael McGivney, Knights of Columbus, News, Picks, Sainthood, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Msgr. John J. Bevins has been praying a long time that a miracle would be attributed to the intercession of Father Michael J. McGivney and move him one step closer to sainthood. “I’ve been praying I would live long enough to see it,” he said. “I was elated. We are praying harder now for the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | Canonization, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Pius II, Renaissance, reverse canonization, Rimini, Senigallia, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta | 0 |
Excommunication generally is considered the ultimate punishment in the Church, but it turns out, just like in the movie “Spinal Tap,” there’s actually an 11 beyond the usual 1-10.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2020 | Canonization, Judging sanctity, News, Sainthood, U.S. & World News | 0 |
In the Catholic Church, a person’s canonization is almost always preceded by decades of meticulous investigation into the minute details of the candidate’s life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 15, 2020 | Canonization, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, clerical sexual abuse, News, St. Pope John Paul II, Vatican | 0 |
The postulator and the commission involved in investigating the life of Pope John Paul II for sainthood cause found no evidence that the pope knowingly neglected or covered up abuse scandals, the postulator said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 25, 2020 | Canonization, caste, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, India, lead, News, saints and martyrs | 0 |
A Vatican decree this weekend announced a miracle had been approved for Blessed Devasahayam, clearing the way for his canonization. However, when Devasahayam was declared a Blessed in 2012, the name used was Devasahayam Pillai.
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