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Okay. Besides being a deacon, St. Gregory the Great was also a pope and a saint. In his spare time, he wrote the first biography of St. Benedict and, when he had nothing better to do, composed the chant that bears his name. Overachiever? Just a bit. Happy feast day, though, to all the [...]
She was a woman of our own times — and one who defies easy categorization. This morning, the good people at Huffington Post have just posted this reminiscence from writer and editor Robert Ellsberg: Despite all the sadness and suffering around her, she had an eye for the transcendent. There were always moments when it [...]
Fr. Dwight Longenecker offers some timeless — and timely — advice: Where shall we find a holy person? Where shall we find a saint? It is difficult because the real saint is hidden and humble and holy. Instead of looking for the hidden holy ones we fall for the celebrity ‘saint’. We want the big [...]
And a New Yorker, too! The sainthood cause of Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai has taken a significant step forward with a Vatican medical board ruling in favor of a miracle attributed to her intercession. Details, from CNS: According to a news release from her religious community, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann [...]
Maybe. With so much bad news flowing out of Catholic Albany, New York these days, this news is heartening: A possible miraculous cure attributed to Catholic media pioneer Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., could advance the beatification cause of the “Rosary Priest” known for his motto “The family that prays together, stays together.” A tribunal based [...]
That’s the astonishing statement of the doctor who treated a young girl whose extraordinary recovery from a deadly auto-immune disorder is now being investigated as a miracle — one that could nudge the fabled Fr. Emil Kapaun closer to sainthood. An excerpt: On Dec. 4, as the hospital staff put Avery through physical therapy that [...]
A small but significant step forward for the cause of the man who (I hope) will one day be the patron saint of television (alongside St. Claire, of course). Details: When Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Ill., presented Pope Benedict XVI with two thick volumes about the life of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the [...]
Maybe. The Vatican is investigating a case in Washington state that could be tied to the Blessed Native American — a New Yorker, in fact, whose image is depicted in the reredos behind the altar in my parish. Details: Doctors at Children’s Hospital worked miracles five years ago to save a young boy’s life. But [...]
John Martens at America’s blog “The Good Word” has a few good words for those who consider themselves the next John the Baptist — or even the next Jesus: John the Baptist was a prophet and Jesus is considered by Christians to be both God and man, the Messiah, Lord, who will come again in [...]
It could happen — most notably in the late pontiff’s native Poland. The Vatican today released guidelines for observing the soon-to-be-Blessed’s feast day — to be marked on October 22 — along with the collect for that feast day’s mass, and other details: In the Diocese of Rome, where Pope John Paul served as bishop, [...]
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