Martin Scorsese will dive into the journey to sainthood with an eight-part Fox Nation docuseries
United States AP Martin Scorsese has already said he’s working on a film about Jesus, and now he’s making a project about saints. Scorsese will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints for the streaming service Fox Nation, it announced Wednesday. Martin Scorsese arrives for an event in Beverly Hills, California. […]
Black nun who founded first African American religious congregation advances closer to sainthood
United StatesAP Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange – a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 – has advanced another step toward sainthood. Under a decree signed by Pope Francis on Thursday, Lange was recognised for her heroic virtue, and advanced in the cause of her […]
International designers respond to calls for a new reliquary to house the remains of Kentish saint
Norwich, UK Canadian, American and British designers have responded to an appeal to design a new reliquary to house the relics of St Eanswythe, the earliest verified remains of an English saint. The Church of England parish Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe in Folkestone, Kent, made the appeal after the lead container which houses the bones […]
Stanley Rother: $US50 million shrine to honour slain priest, first US Catholic martyr
BOBBY ROSS, JR, writing for Associated Press, reports from Oklahoma City ahead of the official opening of a shrine dedicated to Stanley Rother, a missionary from Oklahoma, who was killed in Guatemala in 1981…
The Explainer: Calls for Pope Benedict’s sainthood make canonising popes seem like the norm – but it’s a long and politically fraught process
In an article first published on The Conversation, JOANNE M PIERCE, of the College of the Holy Cross, looks at the process of canonisation in the Catholic Church – particularly as it relates to past popes…
Catholic Church: Padim Ciço, Brazil’s greatest folk saint, to be beatified
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, writing for Religion News Service, reports that almost 90 years after his death, the once excommunicated priest may officially become a saint…
John Paul I, pope who reigned for only 33 days, put on path to sainthood
Vatican CityReuters Pope John Paul I, who reigned for only 33 days in 1978, will be beatified, putting him on the path to eventual sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Wednesday. A statement said Pope Francis had approved a decree recognising a miracle attributed to the intercession of the late Italian […]
French doctor who made Down discovery closer to sainthood
Rome, ItalyAP The French doctor who discovered the genetic basis of Down syndrome but spent his career advocating against abortion as a result of prenatal diagnosis has taken his first major step to possible sainthood. Pope Francis on Thursday approved the “heroic virtues” of Dr Jerome Lejeune, who lived from 1926-1994 and was particularly esteemed […]
Carlo Acutis, Millennial candidate for Catholic sainthood, draws 41,000 to Assisi church
Vatican CityRNS The Catholic Church’s most recent candidate for sainthood is also its most modern. Lying in a glass-sided casket in jeans and a track jacket, the body of Carlo Acutis, an internet enthusiast who died in 2006 of leukemia at the age of 15, was venerated by some 41,000 visitors during a 19-day-long celebration […]
Orthodox Church blasts posters of doctors as saints in Romania
Bucharest, RomaniaAP Romania’s Orthodox Church on Wednesday criticised a billboard campaign showing doctors dealing with the coronavirus epidemic as saints with halos shaped like the virus. According to a church spokesman, the “blasphemous” campaign created by international advertising agency McCann Worldgroup in conjunction with local artist Wanda Hutira is “a visual abuse of Christian iconography.” […]