Catholic bishops have expressed hope that Pope Francis will canonise Blessed John Henry Newman in 2019 after Vatican medics said the inexplicable healing of a U.S. mother was a miracle attributable to his intercession....
Church / Raymond Perrier / Saints
by Raymond Perrier · Published October 28, 2018 · Last modified October 26, 2018
When Pope Francis canonised Archbishop Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI and five others this month, Raymond Perrier was there. Here he reflects on that experience. The meaning of Catholic is of course “universal”. It...
Pope Francis and many people attending the canonisation Mass in St. Peter’s Square were alive when St Paul VI and St Oscar Romero were alive, but the new saints’ relics and those of five...
By Jo Tuckman – Leonor Chacón remembers every emotion she felt on March 24, 1980, as if it were yesterday. It started, she recalls, with the happiness that always accompanied the expectation that Archbishop Óscar...
As the pope who oversaw much of Vatican II and its aftermath, Paul VI had to steer between continuity and innovation, as FR Valentine Iheanacho MSP explains. In many respects, the 1963-78 pontificate of...
Carrying Pope Paul VI’s pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognised them, and five others, as saints of the Catholic Church. Thousands of...
Two very different men, facing different sets of dire challenges with prophetic courage, faithfully journeyed along two different paths to the same destination: sainthood! Who would have predicted it? Oscar Romero Who would have...
Church / Prayer / Saints / Shackleton
by Michael Shackleton · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified October 8, 2018
A friend quotes 1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.” Her church honours the saints only as exemplars of the Christian life...
Church / Church History / Saints
by Jael SC · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified October 16, 2018
Two giants in the struggle for justice studied at the same time in Rome and took inspiration from the pope at the time, explains PADDY KEARNEY. Archbishops Óscar Romero of San Salvador and Denis Hurley...
The Catholic Church has its share of young saints who gave witness through their lives that holiness can be attained even at a young age.
A Johannesburg couple could one day become only the second married pair to be canonised, after Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux. The archdiocese of Johannesburg has laid the...
by Christen Torres · Published September 25, 2018 · Last modified September 26, 2018
He is one of the Church’s most popular saints, revered for his holiness, but there was a time when even a saintly pope opposed Padre Pio, who died 50 years ago next week. CHRISTEN...
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