Catholic Saints

Our Communion of Saints

Franciscan Media November 1, 2024

The saints and blesseds are special signs of God’s activity.

Singular Holiness

Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing October 31, 2024

Francis’s greatness, I think, comes from his ability to transfer, and transform, his internal conversations to the physical reality of the external world.

Carlo Acutis: Miracles, Holy Bread, and a Teen Saint in the Making

Maureen O'Brien October 25, 2024

“Not me, but God,” Blessed Carlo Acutis is quoted as saying. When this author visited Assisi, she discovered the growing excitement surrounding the millennial teenager’s life, legacy, and sainthood cause.

Banners of new saints hang from the facade of St. Peter's Basilica during Mass for the canonization of 14 new saints on World Mission Sunday in St. Peter's Square with Pope Francis at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Saints served generously, creatively, pope says at canonization Mass

OSV News October 22, 2024

Pope Francis called on the faithful to yearn to serve, not thirst for power, as he proclaimed 14 new saints, including Canada-born St. Marie-Léonie Paradis, founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, and 11 martyrs.

sunlight reflecting on a man walking down a field

The Word Dwells in Creation

Franciscan Media October 21, 2024

As the Word dwells in the human person, so, too, the same Word dwells in creation.

Father Jerzy Popieluszko is seen in an August 1981 photo in Warsaw, Poland, at the Huta Warszawa steelworks, where he served as Solidarity's trade union chaplain. Father Popieluszko is celebrating Mass marking the first aniversary of the August 1980 protest in Huta Warszawa. Father Popieluszko was murdered by communist Poland's secret service agents on Oct. 19, 1984. Father Popieluszko was declared blessed in 2010. (OSV News photo/courtesy Institute of National Remembrance IPN)

Poland’s church remembers Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko

OSV News October 21, 2024

As 40 years have passed since the murder of Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, one of their church’s most famous priests, Polish Catholics are urging people everywhere to revisit and learn from his heroic testimony.