On this Feast of All Souls, let us remember “our people,” living for God and for each other. We can live for both, and die for both.
Saints
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
When the (books about) saints go marching in
All Saints Day is a day to venerate holy men and women—and also to recognize the saints in our midst, complicated though they might be.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What does it mean to become a saint?
The Solemnity of All the Saints reveals the relationship between who we are and who we should become, between time and eternity, between ourselves and the saints.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis: Saints weren’t conformists. They were revolutionaries who lived the beatitudes.
The multitude of men and women honored on the feast of All Saints lived according to the Eight Beatitudes.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
The final secret of the Vatican’s Jesuit saint maker
Peter Gumpel, S.J., who died last week, devoted his life to the work of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints. He also had a surprising secret about his own background.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
‘The Song of Bernadette’ is headed to Broadway
Over 80 years after Bernadette’s canonization, Frank Wildhorn has composed the music for a new stage adaptation of “The Song of Bernadette.”
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: Padre Pio and the (controversial) history of the stigmata
Padre Pio is known in part for his prophetic ability, his healing power and receiving the stigmata. But during his life and after his death, these expressions of the 20th-century saint’s holiness have been debated.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
On Padre Pio’s feast day, lessons on facing suffering and rejection
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Padre Pio, by Jill Rice
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Should we really be canonizing recent popes?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the two-day of cardinals in Rome and the recent beatification of Pope John Paul I, who led the church for a mere 33 days before his sudden death.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: What St. Ignatius can teach us about discernment, God and the randomness of life
Pope Francis delivers his general audience speech on the conversion and discernment of St. Ignatius, who encountered the unexpected and made the best of it.