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Pope Benedict XVI will create six new saints Oct. 17, including Blessed Mary MacKillop, who will be Australia’s first saint, and the Canadian Blessed Andre Bessette, who will be the first saint of the Holy Cross Brothers. The pope announced...

The Filipino Catholic Youtube Sensation’s rise to stardom in the United States is spectacularly fast. After her guesting with Oprah and Ellen, touring with the world’s greatest artists and singers, having an international album and being a guest cast on...

Last Friday an evening prayer service marked the Archdiocese of St. Louis’ official closure of its investigation into an alleged miraculous cure attributed to Bl. William Chaminade, founder of the Marianist order. The archdiocesan tribunal, established by Archbishop Robert J....

Last March 27, 2010, during a private audience with Archbishop Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Benedict  authorised the congregation to promulgate the following decrees that will elevate the following faithful to the...

Brooklyn is New York City’s most populous borough with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area. It is also the western most county on Long Island in New York and the most unlikely place to hail a potential saint....

Fr. Benedict Groeschel, if you don’t know him, was a former Capuchin Friar who established the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in New York City together with other seven Capuchin Friars including Fr. Stan Fortuna and Fr. Andrew Apostoli. Fr....

I would like to share with you this very funny but well written post by Jen Lenkiewicz. At first I thought the post was an anti-catholic sentiment but reading between the lines and moving forward from one paragraph to another,...

Some people made a pact with the devil and sold their soul just to gain fame and fortune. But some, made a pact with God and had the best of both worlds. Meet Albert Gubay — the one who made...

Father Peter Gallagher, a pastor in the Indianapolis Archdiocese, says he never dreamed when he was first ordained in 1992 he’d be the chaplain for the Indianapolis Colts, much less go to two Super Bowls with the team. “It’s humbling...

The former head of the Lourdes Medical Bureau is affirming that all people can receive a cure at Our Lady’s shrine if they pray and hope for it with perseverance. Doctor Patrick Theillier, who retired from leadership of the bureau...

St Rafael Arnáiz Barón was born in Burgos, Spain, on 9 April 1911 into a well-to-do Christian family. He was the eldest of four. As a boy he attended several schools run by Jesuits and his sensitivity to spiritual topics...

St Francisco Coll y Guitart was born on 18 May 1812 in the small village of Gombreny, in the Diocese of Vic, Catalonia. He was the 10th and last child of a wool carder. At the age of 10 he...

Arcangelo Tadini was born on 12 October 1846 in Verolanuova (Brescia), Italy. At the age of 18 he entered the seminary in Brescia; however an accident was to leave him with a limp for the rest of his life. He...

St. Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski was born on 1 November 1822 to Gerard Felinski and Eva Wendorff, in Wojutyn, Volinia (present-day Ukraine), then Russian territory. He was the third of six children, of whom four survived. Felinski was raised with faith...

St. Mary of the Cross (in the world: Jeanne Jugan) was born at Cancale, in Brittany, France, on 25 October 1792 in the turbulent period of the French Revolution. She was the sixth of eight children, four of whom died...