Antoni Gaudi just took his first official step toward becoming a saint. The Catalan architect who designed the still-in-progress Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain, has been placed on the ...

Pope Francis on Monday signed a decree that recognized the 20th-century visionary’s “heroic virtues” and put him on the path ...

Blessed Peter To Rot was a layman from present-day Papua New Guinea, a second-generation and married catechist martyred for his faith during the Japanese occupation in World War II and revered as a ...

Pope Francis has advanced five people’s paths to sainthood after approving decrees ... Beatified by St. John Paul II during his apostolic journey to the Oceania nation on Jan. 17, 1995, To ...

Blessed Carmen Rendíles Martínez, born in Caracas in 1903, is poised to become Venezuela's first female saint.

Pope Francis has approved the decree for the canonization of Blessed Peter To Rot, a layman from Papua New Guinea martyred for the faith, paving way for him to become the first saint from the ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, one of his closest collaborators says the Polish pontiff lives ...