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 ...

Venerable Carlo Acutis, an Italian teen whose beatification Pope Francis approved in February, is known for his gift for computer programming, but how he used those skills is what makes him an example ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Sunday, April 15, 2001 and is being shared in celebration of the Beatification of Father Solanus Casey and the work of the Brother Leo Wollenweber ...

The investigation into the possible beatification of the widely loved former Archbishop of Nairobi, Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga, has begun with the appointment of the postulator of his cause.

Olivier Perrier and Philippe Laudenbach, foreground, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Jean-Pierre, Jacques Herlin and Jean-Marie Frin star in a scene from the 2011 movie “Of Gods and Men.” The seven ...