The Daughters of Saint Teresa, who had petitioned that his cause be opened, report that the archbishop lived a simple and austere life, showing great concern for the poor. Archbishop Teofilo Camemot, ...

The canonization for an Italian teenager who was set to become the first millennial saint has been postponed for at least one week after the death of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff died Monday ...

Pope Francis presided Monday at a consistory for the canonization of seven blesseds. The Ordinary Public Consistory took place at 10 a.m. local time May 3 in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic ...

A faithful waves a flag with Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia and beatified in 2020, at the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday ...

Historic event attended by 800,000 from around the world. A bishop uses his mobile phone to take photographs as he arrives for the canonization ceremony of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II to start ...

The Vatican has announced the opening of canonization causes for two contemporary women, both of whom died in the 21st century. One, Enrica Onorante in Michisanti, was a lay woman and mother; the ...

This process led to the first official papal canonization, that of Swiss bishop St. Ulric in 993, by Pope John XV. Detail of a mural showing Blessed Stanley Rother being welcomed into heaven at the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of young people from around the world had come to Rome expecting to rejoice this weekend in the canonization of the first millennial saint during the Vatican’s Holy Year.

VATICAN CITY — The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced. Acutis was to be canonized next Sunday ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of young people from around the world had come to Rome expecting to rejoice this weekend in the canonization of the first millennial saint during the Vatican’s Holy Year.