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Pope Francis walks by an image and relic of St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in the Vatican audience hall Oct. 10, 2022, during a meeting with pilgrims who had come to Rome for the Italian priest's canonization. St. Scalabrini founded a religious order that ministers to migrants and refugees. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Refusal to help migrants is 'sinful, criminal,' pope says at canonization

Cindy Wooden|Oct 9, 2022|5 Min Read

A banner honoring Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini is seen as Pope Benedict XVI leads the Angelus at the Vatican in this Jan. 17, 2010, file photo. On Oct. 9, 2022, Pope Francis will canonize Bishop Scalabrini, who founded separate missionary orders of men and women in the 1880s to provide for the pastoral needs of large numbers of Italian emigrants. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Pope to canonize founder of Scalabrinians, Salesian pharmacist

Cindy Wooden|Oct 4, 2022|3 Min Read

Servant of God Servo Petro Oros. (Vatican News)

Pope advances sainthood causes, including priest killed in Ukraine

Junno Arocho Esteves|Aug 5, 2022|2 Min Read

Drs. Evelyn and John Billings are pictured in the garden of their home in Melbourne, Australia, in this 2004 file photo. The couple are being celebrated as potential saints by those in the medical profession who worked with them as well as families who benefited from their innovative ovulation method, now taught in more than 40 countries around the world. (CNS photo/Peter Casamento)

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Australians promote Billings fertility pioneers as potential saints

Catholic News Service|Jul 26, 2022|4 Min Read

Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer, was beheaded in 1943 after refusing to fight in the Nazi army. (CNS photo)

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Pope Francis: Conscientious objector Bl. Franz Jägerstätter an example for youth

Hannah Brockhaus|Jul 11, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, are pictured in Venice in September 1972. The editorial director of Vatican News, Andrea Tornielli, wrote in a June 21 article that Archbishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, had hoped that Pope Paul VI would liberalize church teaching on artificial birth control, but when he didn't, the archbishop helped promote acceptance of "Humanae Vitae." (CNS photo)

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John Paul I and the pill: He wanted change, but accepted 'Humanae Vitae'

Cindy Wooden|Jun 23, 2022|4 Min Read

Michelle Christine Duppong is seen in this undated photo. She died from cancer Dec. 25, 2015, at age 31 while serving as the director of adult faith formation for the Diocese of Bismarck, N.D. Before that she was a missionary with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students for six years. On June 16, 2022, Bismarck Bishop David D. Kagan announced the opening of a diocesan investigation into Duppong's "holiness of life and love for God" for her possible canonization. (CNS photo/courtesy University of Mary)

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Diocese takes first step toward possible cause for former FOCUS missionary

Kevin Jones|Jun 20, 2022|8 Min Read

Sisters of St. Elizabeth read at a Mass in Wroclaw, Poland, June 11, 2022; the Mass featured the beatification of 10 Polish members of the order who were killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II. (CNS photo/courtesy Congregation of Sisters of St. Elizabeth)

Pope Francis praises 'example of faith' of newly beatified Polish nuns martyred in WWII

Catholic News Agency|Jun 12, 2022|3 Min Read

Bishop Francis Hong Yong-ho is among 81 martyrs of the Korean War on the path to sainthood. He is pictured in an undated portrait. (CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea)

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Bishops advance sainthood cause of 81 Korean War martyrs

Catholic News Service|Jun 9, 2022|2 Min Read

Thousands gather for the June 4, 2022, beatification Mass of Lebanese Capuchin Fathers Leonardo Melki and Thomas Saleh who were martyred in Turkey under the Ottoman Empire, in 1915 and 1917 respectively. The beatification Mass took place at the courtyard of the convent and psychiatric hospital complex of the Franciscan Sisters of the Cross in Jal El Dib, overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean. (CNS photo/Mychel Akl for the Maronite patriarchate)

World

Beatifications of martyred priests lift Lebanese mired in poverty

Doreen Abi Raad|Jun 6, 2022|4 Min Read

This image of Julia Greeley, a former slave who lived in Colorado, was created by iconographer Vivian Imbruglia, who was commission to do the painting by the Archdiocese of Denver. Greeley's sainthood cause is before the Vatican. (CNS photo/iconographer Vivian Imbruglia, courtesy Archdiocese of Denver)

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Could Julia Greeley be one of church's first Black American saints?

Catholic News Service|Jun 1, 2022|4 Min Read

Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite martyred at the Dachau concentration camp, is pictured in an undated photo. Journalists signed a letter to Pope Francis requesting that Blessed Brandsma, who will be canonized May 15, 2022, be named a patron saint of journalists, alongside St. Francis de Sales. (CNS photo/courtesy Titus Brandsma Institute)

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Titus Brandsma: A new patron saint of journalism?

Courtney Mares|May 10, 2022|4 Min Read

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