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.
Father Solanus Casey recalled as beloved friar who showed mercy to others
Albanian church awaits beatification of 38 communist-era martyrs
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.