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Pope Francis advances martyred Albanian priests along path to sainthood

June 21, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Luigi Paliq (left) and Father Gjon Gazulli were declared martyrs by Pope Francis on June 20, 2024. / Credit: Screen capture from aciprensa.com of photo courtesy of The Order of Friars Minor, Episcopal Conference of Albania

CNA Staff, Jun… […]

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Pope Francis paves the way for the canonization of new saints with zeal for mission work

May 24, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Elena Guerra, Marie-Léonie Paradis, and Giuseppe Allamano are among the Blesseds whom Pope Francis paved the way for canonization in a decree on May 23, 2024.  / Credit: Oblates of the Holy Spirit; centremarie-leonieparadis.com; and Unknown phot… […]

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Chiara Corbella’s beatification cause to take a step forward in June

May 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo. / Credit: Christian Gennari/chiaracorbellapetrillo.it

Rome Newsroom, May 16, 2024 / 10:08 am (CNA).
Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo, the joyful young mother who died of cancer in 2012, will be on… […]

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Pope Francis to canonize new female saint known as ‘an apostle of the Holy Spirit’

April 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 8

Blessed Elena Guerra. / Credit: Oblates of the Holy Spirit

Rome Newsroom, Apr 20, 2024 / 08:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Elena Guerra, paving the way for the canonization of a new fe… […]

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Cardinal leads Holy Week prayer vigil for recently martyred Christians

March 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Catholics gather in Rome’s Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island on Holy Tuesday, March 26, 2024, for a prayer vigil honoring Christians who have been killed for their faith in recent years. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Mar … […]

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Servant of God Joseph Dutton’s cause for canonization sent to Vatican

January 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Servant of God Joseph Dutton. This photo is used for the book: “Under Hawaiian Skies” by Albert Pierce Taylor (Honolulu: Advertiser Pub. Co., 1926), p. 558. The caption reads: “Brother Joseph Dutton, the ‘Saint of Molokai,’ who has devoted forty… […]

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Pope Francis recognizes miracle attributed to Argentine Cardinal Pironio who died in 1998

November 8, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Eduardo Francisco Pironio (1920-1998). / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Vatican City, Nov 8, 2023 / 12:51 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis approved a miracle on Wednesday attributed to Argentine Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, paving the way for the beatification… […]

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Pope Francis approves beatification of priest martyred in World War II

May 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Canonization Mass for St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini on Oct. 9, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 05:40 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Saturday approved the beatification of a young Italian priest marty… […]

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Fatima’s Sister Lucia is one step closer to being beatified

October 18, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Lucia dos Santos. Public Domain. / null

Vatican City, Oct 18, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The cause for beatification of Sister Lucia dos Santos, the eldest child to witness the Fatima apparitions, has taken a step forward. In a meeting at the … […]

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Will these African Americans be canonized?

August 13, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

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Denver Newsroom, Aug 13, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Among the many Black men and women who have been declared saints in the Catholic Church, not one of them — yet — has been American. But that does not me… […]

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