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It’s official: The pope declares Junípero Serra a saint
- Sep 23, 2015
WASHINGTON — In what is likely to be the most controversial move of his six-day visit to the United States, Pope Francis declared Spanish missionary Junípero Serra a saint Wednesday, calling him a “protector of Native Americans.” The pope’s decision to canonize the 18th-century Franciscan priest drew criticism because of
The postscript of a martyr
- May 21, 2015
Oscar Romero died because he told the truth. Oscar Romero lives because he told the truth. From out of his historic crisis he forged a universal truth, and left a postscript for us who follow to read for our own times. The details of his life are well known to
Vatican denies setting sainthood date for Mother Teresa
- May 19, 2015
ROME — A Vatican spokesman denied Tuesday that a date has been set to declare Mother Teresa a saint, insisting that the idea of doing it during the Holy Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis is merely a “working hypothesis.” The declaration came in response to reports in Italian
Sri Lanka’s first saint is an icon of Catholicism in Asia
- Jan 13, 2015
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Pope Francis today gave Sri Lanka its very first saint, canonizing a 17th- and 18th-century missionary named Joseph Vaz who helped keep Catholicism alive on the island nation during a time of severe persecution. Vaz was beatified exactly 20 years ago by Pope St. John Paul
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