Sainthood

Al enterarse de que el Papa Francisco había aprobado un segundo milagro atribuido al beato Carlo Acutis, muchos católicos de todo el mundo se pusieron felices, pero nadie más que su madre, Antonia Salzano.

Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of U.S. Sister Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and he recognized the martyrdom of a German priest and nun.

Julia Greeley’s is one of six U.S. Black Catholics being considered for sainthood. She’s been named a “Servant of God,” the title granted to those under consideration for canonization.

Frances Cabrini’s mission work in America became a bright page in the sometimes tumultuous story of Italian-American Catholicism, and she was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.

A Wisconsin Catholic hopes his discovery of long-lost keepsakes of Joseph Dutton can help further the sainthood cause of the layman who ministered to people with leprosy on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

As people of faith, we know that our hope is found not in political parties or their candidates but in Jesus Christ and his church. So, instead of dreading the first Tuesday in November and the inevitably contentious lead-up, here are five events Catholics can anticipate with joy this calendar year.

The authors of a new book tell the story of the newly beatified Ulma family Polish Catholics killed by the Nazis for hiding eight Jews in their farmhouse in 1944.

Irving Houle had prayed for, and apparently received throughout the last 16 years of his life, the privilege to share in Christ’s sufferings as a disciple in a particularly unique way; he apparently had the stigmata.