VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has introduced formal regulations for postulators — those who help guide the process behind the declaration of a saint in the Catholic Church. The norms are part of the ...

Msgr. Richard Soseman, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., and vice postulator of the sainthood cause of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, pictured in this 2013 photo, died of COVID-19 Dec. 9, 2020, at ...

Referring to recent criticisms of St. John Paul II in Poland and elsewhere, Msgr. Oder said that devotion to the pope who led the Church from 1978 to 2005 would prove stronger than the attacks on him ...

The general postulator of the Society of Jesus said he has begun compiling all of the writings of Jesuit Fr. Pedro Arrupe and seeking eyewitnesses who can attest to the holiness of order's late ...

Cover of "The Last Monk of Tibhirine: A True Story of Martyrdom, Faith and Survival" by Freddy Derwahl, a 2013 book about the last member of a monastic community which was kidnapped and beheaded in ...

Media outlets twisted the story of Bl. Mary MacKillop to say she was excommunicated for exposing a priest who sexually abused children, the postulator for her canonization cause is charging. He feared ...

To avoid any appearance of impropriety or undue influence, a cardinal or bishop who is a member of the Congregation for Saints' Causes and anyone officially appointed as a consultant to the ...

Pope John Paul II gestures to the crowd during World Youth Day in Denver in 1993. Msgr. Slawomir Oder, postulator for the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul II, said he and the commission involved in ...

The postulator who will present the causes for sainthood for Charlene Richard and Auguste “Nonco” Pelafigue at the Vatican was in Acadiana this weekend to collect documents in both matters. The Rev.

As Pope Benedict XVI prepared to visit San Giovanni Rotondo this past weekend to pray at the tomb of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the Capuchin Franciscan postulator, Father Florio Tessari, called Padre Pio ...

RICHARD — Auguste Robert “Nonco” Pelafigue was born in 1888 in the shadow of Château de Beaucens, the remains of an ancient castle in a small commune near the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains in ...

The general postulator of the Society of Jesus said he has begun compiling all of the writings of Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe and seeking eyewitnesses who can attest to the holiness of the order’s late ...