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Maryknoll Father Vincent R. Capodanno, a Navy chaplain who was killed while serving with the Marines in Vietnam, is pictured ministering in the field in an undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers)

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Four patriotic Americans on their way to sainthood

Catholic News Agency|Jul 4, 2021|7 Min Read

A monument dedicated to Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur is seen outside St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, La., in the Lafayette Diocese. He was a World War II chaplain who gave his life while saving others on a Japanese prison ship. He is a candidate for sainthood and has the title "Servant of God." (CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Lafayette) Editor's note: Best image available.

Faith

Two U.S. sainthood candidates' causes get big OK from U.S. bishops

Mark Pattison|Jun 17, 2021|4 Min Read

Sr. Maria Laura Mainetti. (Image via CNA)

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Sr. Maria Laura Mainetti: Nun stabbed to death by three teenage girls is beatified

Catholic News Agency|Jun 6, 2021|7 Min Read

A statue of Bl. Charles de Foucauld in Strasbourg, France. (PhotoFires/Shutterstock)

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Pope Francis to hold consistory in last step before canonization of Bl. Charles de Foucauld

Hannah Brockhaus|Apr 26, 2021|2 Min Read

Wiktoria Ulma with six of her children. (The Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II via CNA)

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Polish Catholic family, killed by Nazis for helping Jews, on path to beatification

Catholic News Agency|Mar 24, 2021|4 Min Read

The Hood family. (Courtesy the Hood family via CNA)

Faith

This Catholic family is asking Fulton Sheen's intercession for a second miracle

Matt Hadro|Mar 11, 2021|3 Min Read

Noella Kavira Kitakya, 26, an Ebola survivor who works as a caregiver, puts a shoe on a child whose mother died of Ebola at a UNICEF center in Katwa, Congo, in this Oct. 2, 2019, file photo. Pope Francis opened a new path to sainthood in 2017 for "martyrs of charity," those who made heroic sacrifices during pandemics and other situations of contagion. (CNS photo/Zohra Bensemra, Reuters)

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Heroes of love: New pathway open for future saints

Carol Glatz|Feb 25, 2021|5 Min Read

Father Ignatius Spencer is pictured in an undated portrait. On Feb. 21, Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of Father Spencer, a 19th-century Passionist priest and a relative of Princes William and Harry through their mother, Princess Diana. (CNS photo/courtesy Passionists)

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Passionist priest, relative of English princes, takes step closer to sainthood

Simon Caldwell|Feb 22, 2021|3 Min Read

Pope Francis and now Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, arrive for a session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican in this Oct. 15, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope advances causes of nuns who died helping during Ebola outbreak

Carol Glatz|Feb 22, 2021|3 Min Read

Judge Rosario Livatino. (Public domain via CNA

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Martyred Catholic judge Rosario Livatino to be beatified in May

Hannah Brockhaus|Feb 5, 2021|3 Min Read

Jerome Lejeune, a French Catholic pediatrician and geneticist who died in 1994, is pictured in an undated photo. Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Lejeune, who was involved in discovering the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome. (CNS photo/KNA)

Pope advances sainthood causes of pro-life geneticist Lejeune, others

Carol Glatz|Jan 21, 2021|3 Min Read

Capuchin Fathers Leonard Melki, top left, and Thomas Saleh, bottom right, are Lebanese priests who were martyred by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 and 1917 respectively. (CNS photo/Archives of the Vice Province of the Capuchins in the Middle East, Mteyleb, Lebanon)

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Lebanese man's decades of research helps great-uncle's sainthood cause

Doreen Abi Raad|Jan 4, 2021|4 Min Read

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