Indian Catholic nun Eliswa Vakayil, known as a champion of women's rights, has moved closer to sainthood after Pope Francis published a decree authorizing her and five others to be declared blessed.

Marlene Watkins, author of ‘Everyday Miracles of Lourdes’ (EWTN Publishing), recounts the life of St. Bernadette Soubirous, whose sanctity lay not in grand gestures but in prayer, suffering and ...

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...

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Pope Francis has approved the canonization of Venezuela’s first female saint, Blessed María Carmen Rendiles. The decree, authorized this week, recognizes a miracle attributed to Rendiles, paving the ...

Pope Francis has approved the canonization of Venezuela’s first female saint, Blessed María Carmen ... paving the way for her sainthood. Catholic leaders in Venezuela requested her canonization ...

Carmen Rendiles, who died in 1977, was said to have miraculously cured a young woman diagnosed with a type of hydrocephalus.

Venezuela is set to have its first female saint following approval from Pope ... In 1961, supported by the local Catholic hierarchy, she founded an autonomous congregation. The Catholic bishops ...