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A nun checks her phone as a portrait of late Italian teenager Carlo Acutis is displayed onto the facade of Saint Peter's Basilica in the background ahead of a Holy Mass and canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on September 7, 2025. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
September 7, 2025, 4:30 pm
‘God’s influencer’: Pope Leo proclaims first millennial saint at Vatican
Carlo Acutis, who died at 15, canonized for documenting miracles and other elements of Catholicism online; Vatican criticized for overlooking antisemitic motifs tied to some of the miracles
By AFP and ToI Staff
Figurines of Carlo Acutis on sale in a souvenir shop in Assisi, where Acutis's body is on display, April 3, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)
September 6, 2025, 8:04 am
First ‘millennial saint’ is about to be canonized for publicizing miracles with troubling past
On Sept. 7, Pope Leo XIV will confer sainthood on Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15 after platforming ‘bleeding host’ miracles. But a history of antisemitism clouds the fanfare
By Jules Gomes
Righteous Among the Nations Polish couple Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma. (Public domain)
December 17, 2022, 8:53 pm
Polish couple killed by Nazis for hiding Jews declared martyrs by pope
Pontiff’s move clears path to sainthood for Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma; they hid Jews in town of Markowa until informant turned them in
By AP
A tourist visits the tomb of World War II-era head of Poland's Catholic Church, Cardinal August Hlond, in St. John's Arch-Cathedral in Warsaw, Poland, June 16, 2018. (Alik Keplicz/AP)
July 4, 2018, 5:54 pm
Accusations of anti-Semitism mount against Polish priest set for sainthood
In 1936 pastoral letter, Cardinal August Hlond called Jewish people ‘the vanguard of godlessness, Bolshevism and subversion,’ but also prohibited attacks on Jews
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Nicole Winfield
20th century writer G.K. Chesterton is up for canonization -- but critics say he espoused virulently anti-Semitic views. (Public domain)
June 15, 2018, 4:33 pm
Renowned British writer, a virulent anti-Semite, being considered for sainthood
Proposal for the canonization of author G.K. Chesterton has British Jews — and some Catholics — up in arms
By Robert Philpot
Pope Paul VI, circa 1963 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
May 21, 2018, 9:42 pm
Vatican announces sainthood for Pope Paul VI in October
First pontiff to visit Israel and begin dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Jewish world to be canonized
By JTA
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
September 6, 2016, 4:04 pm
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
3 Jewish lessons from St. Mother Theresa
Learn from this icon of modern religious life, who exemplified the power of serving both humanity and God
Irma Escuero, of New York, holds a statue of Mother Teresa prior to the start of a mass celebrated by Pope Francis where will be canonized in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on September 4, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo)
September 4, 2016, 2:10 pm
Pope declares Mother Teresa a saint, model of mercy
Beatification of Nobel Prize-winning Albanian-Indian nun feted in Rome, Kolkata, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis leads a Mass for the canonization of Blessed Maria Elisabeth Hesselblad and Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary in the Vatican, June 5, 2016. (AFP/ALBERTO PIZZOLI)
June 5, 2016, 5:02 pm
Swedish nurse who saved Jews gets sainthood
Pope canonizes Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad, who hid 60 Jewish people for half a year in a convent in Rome during the Holocaust
By AFP
19th century Catholic nuns Miriam Bawardy (L) and Marie Alphonsine Ghattas (R) are to be canonized by Pope Francis May 17, 2015. (Screen capture: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
May 17, 2015, 1:43 pm
Pope Francis canonizes first Palestinian saints
With Abbas in attendance, Vatican sanctifies two 19th-century Catholic nuns in hopes of bolstering Mideast Christians
By AP, ToI Staff and AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left), and Pope Francis (right) hug each other as Francis arrives at the PA headquarters in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 25, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)
May 11, 2015, 8:30 pm
Abbas to meet Pope before Palestinian nuns canonized
Marie Alphonsine Ghattas of Jerusalem and Mariam Bawardy of Galilee lived in Ottoman-era Palestine
By AFP
19th century Catholic nuns Miriam Bawardy (L) and Marie Alphonsine Ghattas (R) are to be canonized by Pope Francis May 17, 2015. (Screen capture: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
May 10, 2015, 7:19 pm
Pope Francis to canonize first Palestinian saints
Jerusalem Patriarchate hails sainthood of two 19th-century Catholic nuns as a ‘blessing from heaven on our land’
By Tamar Pileggi
The tomb of Rabbi Shalom Imanuel Muyal, who died of yellow fever in 1910, lays at Saint John the Baptist Cemetery in Manaus, Friday, June 20, 2014. (photo credit:AP/Chris Lehourites)
June 22, 2014, 2:41 am
In heart of Brazilian jungle, faithful pray to ‘Jewish saint’
Rabbi Shalom Imanuel Muyal revered by Christians, who come to Manaus to ask for miracles at his grave
By CHRIS LEHOURITES
Croatian Parliament president Marko Došen giving Nazi salute (far left) accompanied by Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac (far right) and other Catholic Church leaders. (public domain via wikipedia)
February 14, 2014, 3:56 pm
Vatican OKs miracle for Croatian called traitor by Jews
Serbs and Jews accuse Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac of sympathizing with Ustasha Nazi puppet regime
By AP
In this file photo taken in March, 1962, Pope John XXIII is shown outside the Church of Canadian Martyrs in Rome. (photo credit: AP Photo)
October 1, 2013, 2:11 pm
Canonization set for popes who fostered Catholic-Jewish relations
Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII to be made saints on April 27
By JTA
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