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Diocese of Green Bay advances sainthood process for Adele Brice

Bishop David Ricken announced a new step in the Catholic Church’s process toward sainthood for Adele Brice, a Wisconsin ...
Catholic News Agency

GK Chesterton's sainthood cause may soon be opened

As an investigation into the life of Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton nears a close, admirers of the English writer voiced hope that his sainthood cause could soon be opened. "Chesterton stands up ...

Green Bay Catholic Diocese investigating sainthood for Champion farmgirl who saw the Virgin Mary

The Green Bay Catholic Diocese announced this weekend that they are investigating sainthood for Adele Brice, the Champion ...
Courthouse News Service

Catholic Church Would Exhume Candidate for Sainthood

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (CN) — Faced with no clear statutory procedure in Tennessee to exhume the body of a priest it hopes to canonize, the Roman Catholic Church in Tennessee asked a court in Chattanooga ...
National Catholic Reporter

Sainthood causes require thorough investigation, pope says

The saints are "the true light of the church," so before they are proposed to all Catholics for imitation and veneration, a scrupulous investigation is required, Pope Francis said. Celebrating the ...
The Advocate

Cause for Charlene's sainthood advances, a target date set; death anniversary passes

RICHARD — Champions for the sainthood cause of Charlene Richard may complete the first phase of the work, local examination of her life and virtue, by autumn, the Rev. Taylor Reynolds, episcopal ...
Crux

Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in U.S.

Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and its newspaper, The Catholic Worker, is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in the Staten Island borough of New ...
National Catholic Reporter

Sainthood causes draw focus to black Catholics and need for justice

Pope Francis declared on June 11 that Fr. Augustus Tolton, the first African-American Catholic priest, lived a life of heroic virtue, a move that put a man who'd been born a slave one miracle away ...
WSAZ

Sainthood not considered for nun whose body hasn’t decomposed after being buried for years

GOWER, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - Sainthood is not being considered for a nun whose body has been confirmed to not have decomposed. The Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph announced on Thursday that the ...
The Columbian

Sainthood urged for 9/11 chaplain

And some argue passionately that Judge should be considered for sainthood, with a new initiative to be launched in the coming days. Though Judge’s religious order has not embraced that cause, a ...
Time

The Pope’s Push for Sainthood

Few doubt that Pope Benedict XVI made a pilgrimage Saturday to the birthplace of a saint. The only real question is when that sainthood will be made official. The date of birth, of course, we already ...