Dioceses’ Spat Over Sheen’s Bones Ends
Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois, announced “with great joy” that the New York Supreme Court ruled that the remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen should be transferred from New York to his diocese. The...
Category: Saints
Saintly Lives: The Birth of Little Eden Homes
In part 3 of his four-part series on the lives of Little Eden founders Domitilla and Danny Hyams, Daluxolo Moloantoa looks at the growth of what would be their two families. In last week’s...
Saintly Lives: How Domitila Met Danny
In the second article in his four-part series on the lives of Little Eden founder Domitilla Rota Hyams and her husband Danny, Daluxolo Moloantoa tells of how three POWs fell for an Italian village girl.
The Early Lives of Two Jo’burg Saints: The Domitila and Danny Hyams Story
Domitilla Rota Hyams was the saintly founder, with the help of husband Danny, of the Little Eden Society for intellectually disabled children in Gauteng. In the first of a series of four articles, Daluxolo...
Second Bl John Henry Newman Miracle Approved
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....
At Home in the Universal Church
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...
Relics offer Physical Reminder that Saints were Real People
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...
My Friend, Fr Oscar
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...
Pope Paul VI Changed the Church
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...
Pope at Canonisation Mass: Saints Risk All for Love of Jesus
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...
The Courageous Witness of Saints Oscar Romero and Paul VI
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...
Why Do We Pray to the Saints?
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...
