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Investigation underway into cause for sainthood for martyrs of Burundi

The grisly murders of missionary priests and a local priest, a lay volunteer and 40 seminarians in Burundi are the focus of a recently opened investigation into their sainthood cause.

Local woman’s cure leads to Cardinal Newman canonization

Pope Francis announced July 1 that he will declare Blessed John Henry Newman, the 19th-century British cardinal, a saint Oct. 13. The cure of a local woman was the second miracle needed for canonization.

David Lee Csicsko: Making the saints accessible today

Well-known Chicago artist and lifelong Catholic David Lee Csicsko creates happy images of saints. With their bright colors, cheery round faces and objects relevant to the saints’ lives, such as roses for St. Therese of Lisieux, his images could be considered modern-day iconography.

Saints risk all for love of Jesus, pope says at canonization Mass

Carrying Pope Paul VI’s pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis formally recognized them, and five others, as saints of the Catholic Church.

October canonizations: Why we ask saints for their intercession

“I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth,” said St. Therese of Lisieux, as noted in “The Final Conversations.” And so she has, with at least four church-approved miracles involving physical healing attributed to her intercession, miracles that paved the way to sainthood for the beloved Carmelite nun.

St. William Parish celebrates feast of St. Rocco

Parishioners at St. William Parish, 2600 N. Sayre Ave., celebrated the 115th anniversary of a novena to St. Rocco Aug. 19, 2018.

Bishop Perry to chair center to promote causes of African American Catholics

Reynold Verret, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, announced July 31 that the university and its Institute for Black Catholic Studies will become the new hub for the advancement of sainthood causes of African-American Catholics.

Pope moves 12 sainthood causes ahead, including U.S. missionary’s

Pope Francis issued decrees recognizing that 12 candidates for sainthood, including U.S. Sacred Heart Brother Norbert McAuliffe, lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way.

Blessed Oscar Romero likely to be canonized in October

During an April 11 homily in Washington, Salvadoran Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas said the canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero will "probably" be in Rome and "probably" take place at end of October after a meeting of bishops.

Why do we venerate relics of saints?

The veneration of relics is a fundamentally biblical practice; it is not some sort of innovation in the centuries after Christ.
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