Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who designed a website documenting various Eucharistic miracles and led a faithful life before his death at age 15, will be canonized, the Vatican announced on Monday ...

Through the centuries, the Catholic Church developed and codified a process for naming saints, known as the canonization process.

A British teenager who died at the tender age of 15 is set to be canonized as a saint by the pope after performing so-called miracles. Carlo Acutis, who succumbed to leukemia in 2006, will finally be ...

Pope Francis issued a decree on Thursday announcing the recognition of a miracle attributed to Bl. Carlo Acutis — clearing the way for the Italian teenager's canonization in the near future. Pope ...

Recently, I got into a vigorous debate with a good friend who is also a good Catholic. He longs for the eventual canonization of the Irish alcoholic Venerable Matt Talbot (d. 1925). He says the Holy ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church makes saints to give the faithful role models. The process is cloaked in secrecy and open to criticism, given that it deals with science-defying miracles and ...

A video-gaming Italian teenager will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint after his cause for canonization was approved by church authorities. Carlo Acutis, who died from leukemia in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of "heroic virtues." Miraculous cures. The Vatican's complicated saint-making process has long fascinated Catholics and no-Catholics alike, ...

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church makes saints to give the faithful role models. The process is cloaked in secrecy and open to criticism, given that it deals with science-defying miracles and ...

Tomorrow, an Italian boy who died in 2006 becomes the Catholic Church's first millennial saint - in other words, the first saint from a generation of smartphones, social media and the internet. Just ...