The Italian pope, who reigned from 1963 to 1978, will now be known as ‘Venerable’
Topic: Congregation for Saints’ Causes
Vatican to investigate Cause of British nun who hid Jews from Nazis
Posted on Tuesday, 17 January 2012
File on Mother Riccarda is sent to the Vatican to be studied by historians and theologians
Marianne Cope and ‘Lily of the Mohawks’ to be canonised
Posted on Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Pope Benedict XVI advances Causes of 20 men and women and recognises 64 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Pope approves beatification of 26 martyrs
Posted on Friday, 2 July 2010
Martyrs were killed during Spanish Civil War
Cold War martyr beatified in Warsaw
Posted on Friday, 11 June 2010
A martyred Polish priest was praised for standing against the oppressive forces of Communism when he defended human rights in his sermons during a beatification Mass
Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie