Pope Leo approves beatification for priests martyred by Communists, declares US nun ‘venerable’
Servant of God Juan Torres Torres and 19 fellow priests were killed in hatred of the faith in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.
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Articles tagged Beatification
Our Lady said Russia was NEVER consecrated — the martyr priest who boldly preached this is being beatified
Believe it or not, one of the very priests who led the worldwide effort to spread Our Lady’s messages warning of a coming false church is about to be beatified.
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Two Catholic priests executed by communist regime in Czechoslovakia now beatified
Thousands gathered in Brno, Czech Republic as the Church beatified Frs. Jan Bula and Vaclav Drbola, who were executed after being framed by Czechoslovakia's communist regime.
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Calls to beatify Pope Francis emerge just one year after his death
Advocates point to pastoral symbolism and a ‘widespread perception of a religious figure who profoundly marked his time’ for beatification, with no reference to traditional criteria.
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Our Lady Warned of a False Church — The Martyr Priest Who Spread Her Message Is Being Beatified
On June 13, 2026—the anniversary of the second Fatima apparition—a martyr priest will be raised to the altars. Father Nazareno Lanciotti was killed in Brazil in 2001, shot down for defending youth from exploitation and spreading the message of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. But his beatification is more than a celebration of one man’s courage. It is a confirmation of the warnings he spent his life delivering. Lanciotti was a priest of the Marian Movement of Priests, a movement rooted in the Fatima messages that spoke of a coming crisis: a false ecumenism, a loss of faith at the […]
Pope Leo APPROVES sainthood for bishop who SLEPT with young men
Pope Leo XIV has advanced the beatification cause of Msgr. Alejandro Labaka, a missionary whose personal diaries describe sharing a bed naked with a young man and engaging in deeply disturbing behavior with indigenous youth. The writings, which read as admissions of abuse, are now being overlooked in Rome’s push to raise this bishop to the altars — a decision critics call a catastrophic failure of moral discernment at a time when the Church should be purging corruption, not canonizing it. The controversy is joined by other troubling signals from the Vatican: Pope Leo’s use of altar girls at a […]
LEAKED EMAIL: Cupich turns Fulton Sheen Day into an anti-Trump lecture
To many, it may not have been immediately apparent that Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich places politics above the Catholic faith. But today, that reality is unmistakable.
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Archbishop Gänswein expresses hope for future beatification of Pope Benedict XVI
The former personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI also urged respect for the usual timeframe set by ecclesial practice.
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Ulma family beatification: Can an unborn baby really be a martyr?
With regards to salvation, a baptized infant has the theological virtues infused into its soul, and immediately enters heaven after death. But can such an infant truly be called a martyr, if killed under certain circumstances?
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Polish Catholic family to be beatified as martyrs after being murdered by Nazis for helping Jews
Pope Francis signed the decree December 17 recognizing Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children as martyrs.
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