Tag Archives: Beatifications and Canonizations

The New York Times 4:37 pm on January 21, 2022
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Was Dorothy Day Too Left-Wing to Be a Catholic Saint?

The Archdiocese of New York has asked the Vatican to consider the social activist for sainthood. But church leaders are not entirely comfortable with her politics.

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The New York Times 1:00 pm on December 3, 2021
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The Canonization of Saint John Coltrane

The intensity of the jazz legend’s music has always inspired passion, but in the 1960s, one group of devotees was so stirred they founded a church in his name.

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The New York Times 4:24 pm on October 13, 2021
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John Paul I, Pope for 33 Days in 1978, Will Be Beatified

Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to the last Italian pope, bringing him a step closer to becoming a saint.

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The New York Times 10:31 pm on August 2, 2021
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Even the Pope Has Prayed to Venezuela’s Beloved ‘Doctor of the Poor’

In a deeply polarized country, suffering an extreme health crisis, one of the few uniting beliefs is the admiration across the political spectrum for a doctor recently beatified by the Vatican.

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The New York Times 2:55 pm on November 14, 2020
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Vatican Report Cast Pope John Paul II in Harsh New Light

The former pope was fast-tracked for canonization immediately after his death. But a tarnished legacy in dealing with the church’s sex abuse scandals has left critics to wonder whether it was too fast.

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The New York Times 5:34 pm on November 10, 2020
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The Vatican’s Explosive McCarrick Report: 5 Takeaways

A new report about a disgraced former cardinal had the potential to implicate three separate papacies in scandal.

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The New York Times 10:51 pm on October 12, 2020
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An Italian Teenager Could Become the First Millennial Saint

Carlo Acutis, who died at 15 in 2006 and was an early adopter of the internet, was beatified over the weekend, putting him on the path to sainthood in the Catholic Church.

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The New York Times 2:58 pm on May 29, 2020
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Knights of Columbus Founder, Who Died in a Pandemic, Moves Closer to Sainthood

Pope Francis has credited a 2015 miracle to the Rev. Michael J. McGivney, a Connecticut priest who died in 1890 during an outbreak that researchers now believe may have been caused by a coronavirus.

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