Benedict learned from experience that pushing yourself too hard can be a road to spiritual ruin. There is a fine line between work that glorifies God and work that merely glorifies yourself.
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The miracle that moved Archbishop Fulton Sheen to beatification
After 61 minutes, just as emergency room personnel were about to pronounce him dead, James Fulton Engstrom began to breathe and his heart rate shot up to a normal level for a newborn.
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified
Pope Francis has approved a miracle bringing the late American Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen closer to sainthood.
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Chicago woman’s healing is miracle in Cardinal Newman’s sainthood cause
A few prayers to Blessed John Henry Newman became a “constant dialogue” and then a desperate response to an emergency for Melissa Villalobos of Chicago.
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Cardinal John Henry Newman to be canonized in Rome Oct. 13
Pope Francis will declare Blessed John Henry Newman, the 19th-century British cardinal, a saint Oct. 13.
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Remains of Archbishop Fulton Sheen transferred from New York to Peoria Diocese
Bishop Jenky said the sainthood cause for the archbishop, a native of the Peoria Diocese, has resumed.
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This Catholic high schooler painted a mural of black saints to help fight racism
Chloe Becker was upset when she realized she could not name a single African or African-American saint.
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Pope Francis advances sainthood cause for first African-American diocesan priest in the U.S.
Pope Francis has signed decrees which would advance the sainthood causes of women martyrs of the Spanish Civil War and of the first African-American diocesan priest in the United States, Father Augustus Tolton.
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Pope Francis advances eight sainthood causes, including Brazil’s ‘Mother Teresa’
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of four men and four women, including Blessed Dulce Lopes Pontes, the “Mother Teresa” of Brazil.
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Pope Francis meets with Bulgarian Orthodox Patriarch Neofit
The meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Neofit was only the second meeting in more than a thousand years between a pope and a Bulgarian Orthodox patriarch.