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by bcadmin | Sep 19, 2022 | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Cause of Saints, News, saints and martyrs, Vatican | 0 |
While all Christians are called to live a life of holiness, only some are recognized as having lived life in such a way that they are canonized as saints, said the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2022 | Canonizations, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Causes of Saints, lead, News, saints and martyrs, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Artémides Zatti, a Salesian brother who was a pharmacist in Argentina and known for his care for the sick; the miracle clears the way for his canonization.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2022 | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Doctors, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis received a formal recommendation to declare St. Irenaeus of Lyon a doctor of the church, the Vatican said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2021 | Beatification, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic Church, Catholic Church in Poland, Catholic news, Europe, Fr. Jan Macha, Free Access, martyr, Nazi Germany, Nazis, News | 0 |
A Catholic priest guillotined by the Nazis in 1942 was declared blessed on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided at the beatification of Fr. Jan Macha at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice, southwest Poland, on Nov. 20. Preaching at the live-streamed Mass, the Italian cardinal said: “The witness
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2021 | Beatification, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic Church, Catholic Church in Poland, Catholic news, Europe, Fr. Jan Macha, Free Access, martyr, Nazi Germany, Nazis, News | 0 |
A Catholic priest guillotined by the Nazis in 1942 was declared blessed on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided at the beatification of Fr. Jan Macha at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice, southwest Poland, on Nov. 20. Preaching at the live-streamed Mass, the Italian cardinal said: “The witness
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 18, 2021 | Beatification, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Martyrs, News, Spain, Spanish civil war | 0 |
More than 100 victims of Spain’s 1936-1939 civil war moved a step closer to sainthood after being beatified as martyrs for the faith.
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 4, 2021 | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Causes of Saints, News, saints and m, Vatican | 0 |
The Catholic Church’s proclamation of new saints demonstrates that it is possible for men and women to live holy lives and that God is present and at work in the world, said the prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 22, 2021 | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Congregation for the Causes of Saints, News, Pope Francis, saints and martyrs, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of one of Princes William and Harry’s 19th-century ancestors as well as the causes of three Italian nuns who died from the Ebola virus while ministering to patients in Congo.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 23, 2020 | Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, lead, Mafia, martyrdom, News, News Analysis, Oscar Romero, Religious persecution, Rosario Livatino, Sainthood cause | 0 |
Rosario Livatino, 37 at the time of his death, will become the first Italian anti-mafia judge to be beatified, following in the footsteps of Father Giuseppe “Pino” Puglisi, the country’s best known anti-mafia priest, who was killed in 1993 and beatified shortly after Pope Francis’s election in 2013.
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