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One of the Church’s most celebrated missionaries may be closer to being officially declared a saint. A newspaper in Hawaii breaks the news: Father Damien DeVeuster, the Belgian priest who served Hansen’s disease patients at Kalaupapa, Molokai, and later died of the disease, has moved closer to sainthood. A commission of five doctors scrutinizing an…

A few weeks ago, some people were running in circles with their hair on fire, saying Mother Teresa was an atheist and a fraud. Now, it seems, they’re doing the same thing about Padre Pio and his stigmata: John XXIII believed Padre Pio, the hugely popular Capuchin monk who was canonised in 2002, was a…

He was pretty prolific, after all, and gave us two pivotal works of the New Testament, which managed to recount the life of Christ and the early days of the Church. Not too shabby. He also stands as the only one of the evangelists who was not Jewish — and whose work speaks eloquently, even…

It’s amazing what a little sainthood can do. A shrine in Indiana is turning into a major tourist destination, and place of pilgrimage, a year after the woman who founded it was declared a saint. From the Indianapolis Star: Peace and tranquility are still treasured commodities on the grounds once walked by Indiana’s lone Catholic…
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