For a long time, being a pope was like getting a golden ticket, not just to heaven but to the official sainthood VIP lounge. In the early centuries of the Roman Catholic Church, sainthood was ...

Pope Leo XIV’s appointment of Cardinal Baldassare Reina as the grand chancellor ushers in a new era for the institute that ...

St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his papacy and personal mission. Pope John Paul II laughs during a gat ...

On April 30, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized Maria Faustina Kowalska and declared the second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. This year, we celebrate the feast on April 27. In his ...

Francis’ prolificacy in naming saints outpaced even that of St. John Paul II, who canonized 482 people during his 27 years as pope, more than all of his predecessors combined. Pope Francis named ...

I had just completed writing The Integral Person in a Fractured World, which centered on Pope John Paul II’s theology of ... occurrences involved the now canonized saint. It was April 2, 2005.