In a statement, the Archbishop Oscar Romero U.S. Centennial Commission said it invites churches “to honor Blessed Romero by including a petition or other remembrance during Assumption Day Masses.”
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‘Father Stan’s Our Man’: Okla. farm town honors hometown hero on path to sainthood
Year after year, the slain priest’s childhood church celebrates a special anniversary Mass remembering the sacrifice Rev. Stanley Francis Rother made to serve Mayan descendants in a poor, mountain village 50 miles west of Guatemala City.
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Pope Francis to beatify Colombian martyrs who were witnesses ‘to the point of death’
In September, the pope will beatify a bishop and a priest filled in the country’s decades-long civil war.
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Ohio artist restores religious statues, stirs memories of closed parishes
Lou McClung has made it his vocation to preserve artifacts from closed churches in Northeast Ohio.
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Serbs, Croats conclude study of the life of controversial martyr Blessed Stepinac
Despite differences of opinion on Cardinal Stepinac’s life, the commission members said they were aware that the final decision on his canonization is of “the exclusive competence of the pope”
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Pope Francis recognizes fourth path to sainthood
The pope is opening the way to recognize as saints those who act in ways they know will lead to their certain death.
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Why St. Francis de Sales’s ‘Devout Life’ still resonates today
De Sales’s insistence that a life of prayer “finds its ideal in the ordinary” will appeal to modern readers.
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Martyrdom ‘not remote possibility’ for Southern Philippines Catholics, priest says
The Vatican earlier posed no objection to the beatification process of Father Palliola, who established Christian settlements in the western part of Mindanao among the Subanon tribe.
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Remains of former slave eyed for sainthood moved to Denver cathedral
In a step toward possible sainthood, the remains of a former slave have been moved to a Catholic cathedral in Denver, where people lined up Wednesday to honor her and pray for her help.
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What Pope Francis learned from St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
An excerpt from Jesuit Sean Salai’s new book “All the Pope’s Saints: The Jesuits Who Shaped Pope Francis”