VATICAN CITY – Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of “heroic virtues.” Miraculous cures. The Vatican’s complicated saint-making process has long fascinated Catholics and non-Catholics alike, and ...

Forty-two years ago, a family of three from Massachusetts packed their bags and headed to Poland seeking a miracle. Bob and Maureen Digan, along with their 8-year-old son, Bobby, arrived at Sister ...

The process requires a rigorous examination of the life and holiness of a candidate and involves several stages that can last years or even centuries. After someone with a reputation for exceptional ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who died from leukemia in 2006, will become the Catholic Church's first millennial saint following Pope Francis' attribution of a second miracle to ...

Last month at a church in Baltimore, a group of Catholics launched a campaign calling on Pope Francis to name six men and women the first Black Catholic saints from the U.S. The six candidates include ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church makes saints to give the faithful role models. The process is cloaked in secrecy and open to criticism, given that it deals with science-defying miracles and ...

Venezuelans celebrate a milestone in its quest for sainthood for José Gregorio Hernández, the country's beloved "doctor of the poor." A man makes a sign of the cross in front of a painting of José ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Pope Leo proclaimed his first two saints on Sunday, one being the first millennial Saint welcomed into the Catholic Church. Thousands gathered at St. Peter's Square to ...

(The Conversation) – Albino Luciano, better known to the world as Pope John Paul I, reigned as pope for only 34 days before his death in September 1978. But he will soon join the ranks of 20th-century ...

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