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Vermont’s 10th bishop opens sainthood cause for diocese’s first bishop

Apr 21, 2019

The 10th bishop of the Diocese of Burlington has opened a cause for canonization for the first bishop of the statewide diocese.

By Cori Fugere Urban

Digital apostle: Pope cites tech whiz as role model for young people

Apr 11, 2019

The life of Venerable Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager on the road to sainthood, showed that young people could use the power of social networking and communications with “creativity and even genius,” the pope said in his exhortation Christus Vivit (“Christ Lives”).

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Opening archives won’t settle debate over Pius XII and the Holocaust

Mar 5, 2019

Whatever else opening the archives from the papacy of Pius XII in 2020 may mean, it won’t bring an end to the debate over his alleged silence on the Holocaust.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Bishop ‘touched emotionally’ by film on Father Tolton’s boyhood, family

Mar 2, 2019

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry, postulator of Father Augustus Tolton’s sainthood cause, said he was “touched emotionally” by the portrayal of the African-American priest’s boyhood and family life in the new short film “Across.”

By Robert Alan Glover

Tolton sainthood cause advances; next step would be ‘venerable’ decree

Feb 21, 2019

The canonization cause for Father Augustus Tolton is just one step away from going to Pope Francis for the priest to be declared “venerable.”

By Joyce Duriga

Booze, cigars and a halo? Chesterton sainthood cause awaits approval

Feb 7, 2019

One of the leading scholars behind the push to advance the cause for canonization of celebrated writer G.K. Chesterton has published a new book hitting back at critics of the “prolific” 20th century author and making a case for his sainthood, a process already in the works and waiting for approval to go forward.

By Elise Harris