Pope Francis's first canonization ceremony was a record-breaking one. The new pontiff named over 800 new saints on Sunday. That's already almost double the number of saints declared by Pope John Paul ...

Pope Leo XIV said he prayed for peace on a visit to St Francis of Assisi's tomb in the Umbrian town Thursday. At the tomb of St. Francis I prayed for peace," said Leo as he left the monastery of the ...

From a bird's-eye view high above St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a stunning photograph shows the estimated 250,000 ...

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the first two saints of his papacy in a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday, including the first of the millennial generation. Blesseds Carlo Acutis and ...

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan ...

Pope Leo will canonize Blessed Carlo Acutis on Sept. 7 − the first such ceremony of his tenure and the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation – elevating him to the same level as Mother ...

A date for the long-awaited canonization of the world’s first Millennial saint has finally been set. Pope Leo XIV has picked Sept. 7 for the rescheduled canonization of Carlo Acutis, the young man who ...