The Name of the Rose is a 1980 historical murder-mystery novel by Italian semiotician and author Umberto Eco, which was also adapted into a 1986 feature film and a 2019 television miniseries. The backdrop to the novel is a major 14th-century dispute over…
Five Spanish missionaries are being elevated one step away from sainthood nearly 430 years after they were killed in present-day Georgia SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Nearly 430 years after they were killed in a bloody uprising by Native people they came to the New…
Did your August column contain a misprint in your answer about the difference between Blessed and Venerable? You wrote, “A person moves from Venerable to Blessed in one of two ways: he or she is judged to have died because…
Tom Vander Woude; Tom Vander Woude Guild Blessed Bishop Fulton Sheen taught at Catholic University of America for two decades – other professors and students have been praised for their holy life The Catholic University of America is proud to call…
The board of directors, senior leadership, and staff of Our Sunday Visitor (OSV), in union with the Catholic Church around the world and especially here in the United States, celebrate the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in St. Louis on…
Visual sign support for important on-screen content On September 17, Franciscans celebrate the Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis, to recall Francis's body being wondrously marked with the wounds of Christ. This painting by Spanish artist José Benlliure y Gil…
by Kathy | Jun 10, 2025 | Bible study Lessons, Quiet Time, Resources | 1 comment Sometime around the end of the 1st century, the church formally began to use the word “gospel” to identify the written accounts of Jesus’ life. The Gospels became a new and…
Sep 19, 2024, 08:00 ET Uncover the Untold Story Of This Inspiring Saint "Padre Pio was not only a great storyteller but also enjoyed telling jokes." Gurrieri said she herself was changed by reading Saint Pio's letters to his spiritual fathers in which…
Credit: fot. Wikimedia Commons | MICHI abba - praca własna | CC BY-SA 4.0 Brother Daniele Natale was a spiritual son of St. Padre Pio and after dying, he spent some time in purgatory, but was sent back to live another 42 years. On October…
Confessor and lay brother, also called Alonso. He was born in Segovia, Spain, on July 25, 1532, the son of a wealthy merchant, and was prepared for First Communion by Blessed Peter Favre, a friend of Alphonsus' father. While studying with the…
Saints and Canonization in Catholics: the news, the names and what changed.
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