Articles tagged Canonization

Blessed Carlo Acutis set to become first millennial saint after approval of second miracle

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the tech-savvy Italian teenager known for his devotion to the Holy Eucharist, is credited with healing a young woman in Florence who miraculously recovered from a serious head injury.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• May 24, 2024May 28, 2024

Cause for canonization underway for devout young Catholic woman Michelle Duppong

Michelle Duppong, a FOCUS missionary from North Dakota who died of cancer at age 31, is described as ‘an example of joyful sacrifice and missionary zeal.’

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Ashley Sadler

• Apr 11, 2024Apr 15, 2024

Daughter of 19th century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne declared ‘venerable’ by Catholic Church

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop had a varied life that included marriage and motherhood prior to her religious vocation.

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Ashley Sadler

• Mar 22, 2024Mar 22, 2024

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?

Analysis

S.D. Wright

• Sep 12, 2023Sep 12, 2023

Margaret of Castello, a new saint for the pro-life movement

Four hundred years after the Dominican was beatified, the unwanted woman abandoned by her parents will be canonized.

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Fr. Frank Pavone

• Apr 29, 2021Jul 30, 2021

We shouldn’t take holiness as blanket approval: Even saints have their blind spots

God sanctifies our souls, which does not mean correcting every natural flaw of mind or body, and sometimes means leaving certain flaws as weaknesses through which His power can triumph.

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Peter Kwasniewski

• Dec 8, 2020Jul 30, 2021

It’s wrong for pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin to make gay reference to John Henry Newman

There is no indication that the newly canonized saint was a homosexual.

Opinion

John Beaumont

• Oct 17, 2019Jul 30, 2021

Prince Charles pens stirring tribute to England’s St. John Henry Newman

The Prince of Wales called the canonized English cardinal an inspiration who 'impressed even his opponents' after his conversion to Catholicism.

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LifeSiteNews.com

• Oct 15, 2019Jun 18, 2021

Pro-LGBT priest Fr. Martin suggests John Henry Newman ‘may have been gay’

'It isn't a slur to suggest that Newman may have been gay.'

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Martin M. Barillas

• Oct 14, 2019Jun 18, 2021

Pope Francis to canonize a cardinal who criticized a Vatican Council and hoped for ‘another pope’

John Henry Cardinal Newman at one time hoped the current problematic pope would be 'driven from Rome, and will not continue the Council, or that there will be another Pope.'

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Peter Kwasniewski

• Mar 12, 2019Jun 18, 2021

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Articles tagged Canonization

Blessed Carlo Acutis set to become first millennial saint after approval of second miracle

Cause for canonization underway for devout young Catholic woman Michelle Duppong

Daughter of 19th century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne declared ‘venerable’ by Catholic Church

Ulma family beatification: Can an unborn baby really be a martyr?

Margaret of Castello, a new saint for the pro-life movement

We shouldn’t take holiness as blanket approval: Even saints have their blind spots

It’s wrong for pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin to make gay reference to John Henry Newman

Prince Charles pens stirring tribute to England’s St. John Henry Newman

Pro-LGBT priest Fr. Martin suggests John Henry Newman ‘may have been gay’

Pope Francis to canonize a cardinal who criticized a Vatican Council and hoped for ‘another pope’