Catholic Saints

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A Prayer for Saint Clare

Jack Wintz, OFM August 11, 2025

Prayer cannot be judged on the basis of “highs” or “feel-good” experiences.

woman sitting on the ground next to her backpack with her belongings

Become Poor

Ilia Delio, OSF August 10, 2025

How do we center ourselves in the love of God? Clare’s answer is simple and disarming: Become poor.

Clare’s Spiritual Genius

Ilia Delio, OSF August 9, 2025

To know God is to know the human person since the mystery of God is the human person.

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at age 24 and was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1990, will be canonized Sept. 7, 2025, along with Blessed Carlo Acutis. (OSV News photo/Catholic Press Photo)

For young adults, soon-to-be-saint Frassati has ignited their faith amid fellowship

OSV News August 8, 2025

Kyle Radgowski is one of the organizers of the Frassati Fellowship for young adults in Chicago’s southwest suburbs.

I have found a tremendous amount of foundational stability, trust, and comfort in the generosity of others. I never had to worry about not having a room at the inn. “Look at the birds in the sky; they do not ...

woman walking in a city carrying a backpack

St. Christopher, Christ-Bearer

Christopher Heffron August 6, 2025

This saint reminds us that, in our own way, we carry Christ on our shoulders and in our hearts across mighty rivers.

Pilgrims gather near a portrait of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the Church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome, where his relics are displayed July 31, 2025, during the Jubilee of Youth, ahead of his Sept. 7 canonization. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Acutis relics a reminder for pilgrims that holiness ‘is not impossible’

Catholic News Service August 4, 2025

Along one of Rome's busiest streets, Via del Corso, traffic moves slowly as hundreds of pilgrims crisscross traffic on foot to get to their destination.