Hermit, Martyr and Journalist Among New Catholic Saints May 13, 2022 4:08 AM By Agence France-Presse; ... He was declared a martyr and beatified in 2012, ...

VATICAN CITY — 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 an… ...

VATICAN CITY – 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 ...

VATICAN CITY - Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of "heroic virtues." Miraculous cures. The Vatican's complicated saint-making process has long fascinated Catholics and no-Catholics alike ...

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 notoriously ...

Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony ...

Pope Francis declared two martyrs, four priests and a mystic nun saints of the Catholic church on Sunday, saying they all had a "generous and steadfast heart". Tapestry portraits of the seven saints, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The latest saints were proclaimed Sunday during a Mass celebrated by Francis in St. Peter's Square and attended by some 35,000 faithful, many of them pilgrims from the ...

TOKYO, Japan — A 17th-century Catholic Samurai and martyr was beatified during a Mass in ‎Osaka, Japan, on Tuesday. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Vatican’s ‎Congregation for the ...

VATICAN CITY – Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of "heroic virtues." Miraculous cures. The Vatican's complicated saint-making process has long fascinated Catholics and no-Catholics alike ...

Two martyrs were also added to the Church's more than 10,000-strong roster of saints. Jose Sanchez del Rio was tortured and shot dead in 1928, at the age of 14, while opposing the anti-Catholic ...