Beatification

Pope Francis will beatify a priest and a bishop martyred in Colombia when he visits the country in September 8.

A documentary titled “The Shepherd Cannot Run: Father Rother’s Story,” about U.S. priest who worked in Guatemala for 14 years until he was brutally murdered in 1981 will be shown prior to his beatified in September.

The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has opened a website detailing the life, as well as steps toward sainthood, of Father Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma priest scheduled to be beatified in the fall.

Capuchin Father Solanus Casey will be named “blessed” — the second U.S.-born man to achieve such a designation and the first person from Michigan.

A priest who was shot for baptizing a child and a religious novice who died after she was tortured in a sack are among 38 Albanians to be beatified as martyrs Nov. 5, doubling the number of Catholics declared blessed from communist rule in Eastern Europe.