John Paul II canonized more saints (482) than the popes from the previous 500 years combined, and Pope Francis is more than keeping up.
Saints
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A convert’s journey with St. John Henry Newman
Like Newman, I am a convert to Roman Catholicism, but it is the way Newman converted that is most important to me.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Only in New York, a fight over a statue of Mother Cabrini
Noting that Mother Cabrini was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized by the Catholic Church, Gov. Cuomo added, in perhaps a dig at political rival New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, “She is certainly deserving of a statue.”
Posted inBooks, Faith
Review: Ann Patchett’s liars and questionable saints
In this book, Danny commits lies of omission as he does not tell his sister how much he hates their mother for essentially leaving them to whatever fate throws their way.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
One year after his canonization, is St. Óscar Romero still ‘the people’s saint’ in El Salvador?
On Oct. 14, 2018, he was canonized by Pope Francis. Today, Salvadorans ask themselves what the transition from “Msgr. Romero”—what he has been called in El Salvador for decades—to “St. Romero” means for his legacy.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Nichols on why John Henry Newman is ‘a patron saint for everyone’
The cardinal archbishop of Westminster came to Rome with 15 English and Welsh bishops to concelebrate the Mass in which Pope Francis declared Newman a saint, the first British saint to be born after 1800.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis canonizes five new saints, including John Henry Newman
The new saints include three women religious who cared for the poor and the sick, a laywoman mystic and the most significant English Catholic theologian of modern times.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A brief life of John Henry Newman
In all, Father Collins understands Newman not as “a stainless saint,” but as a dutiful friend and a multifaceted defender of the Catholic faith.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
One man, two churches: John Henry Newman’s legacy lives on for both Catholics and Anglicans
The Rev. Dr. Will Adam, an official in the Anglican Communion, offers his perspective on the upcoming canonization of John Henry Newman.
Posted inFaith, News
Celebrations begin for five saints who will be canonized on Sunday
The Vatican hung banners of the Catholic Church’s newly canonized saints four days before the Mass that would officially recognize that they are in heaven with God.