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A personal look at Fatima’s saintly Sister Lucia
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church, Pope in Fatima
- May 10, 2017
Pope Francis will be visiting the Fatima shrine in Portugal May 12-13 where he will declare Jacinta and Francisco Marto saints. The former Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, who opened the cause for the canonization of their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, talks about why she was a saintly yet practical woman.
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Child saints have much to teach the Church on suffering, sacrifice
- Interviews, Pope in Fatima
- May 10, 2017
The canonization of Fatima visionaries Jacinta and Francisco Marto will put the spotlight on the heroic holiness possible in children. Austin Ruse hopes it will “open the floodgates” in allowing other saintly children to be canonized. He highlights three children of this generation who lived lives of heroic virtue in his new book ‘Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ.’
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Before proclaiming martyrs, the waiting game is needed
- Commentary, Vatican
- May 6, 2017
Many of those killed in attacks targeting Christians were simply going about their daily affairs when the bomb went off, or the mob arrived. Some of them professed their faith, or at least did not deny it, before death, while others died without even knowing what was happening to them. Before the Church proclaims them all martyrs, the Church needs time to permit a fuller picture of the candidate to emerge. Waiving the mandatory five-year waiting period before opening a cause for canonization makes it harder to do that.
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Papal visit completes Fatima anniversary celebrations
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church, Pope in Fatima
- May 4, 2017
Portuguese Bishop Antonio dos Santos Marto of the Diocese of Leiria-Fatima said the centenary celebrations of the apparitions at Fatima “wouldn’t be complete without the presence of the pope,” explaining that the pope “is part of the message of Fatima.” Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the children who saw Our Lady, will be canonized May 13 during Pope Francis’s Mass at the Fatima shrine.
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No date yet for Romero canonization, archbishop says
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- March 26, 2017
Pope Francis said, “that it would be very good if the places associated with Romero — his relics, the place where he was killed and where he was born — would become places of pilgrimage,” when speaking about Blessed Oscar Romero whose cause for canonization is being examined.
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French bishop opens sainthood cause for foundress of Tyburn Nuns
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- December 6, 2016
French Bishop Joseph de Metz-Noblat of Langres has opened the cause for canonization of Mother Marie Adele Garnier, foundress of the Tyburn Nuns, who allegedly saw a consecrated host turn to bloody flesh in the hands of a priest.
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