Visit the homepage for more information. A: When speaking of saints we think of a sometimes long process of canonization in the course of which close scrutiny of the future saint is conducted by Roman ...

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori helped the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton open a new exhibit marking the ...

Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of the prophets ... To some degree, the process of Scripture-making, or canonization as it is often called (from the Greek word kanon, a "measuring ...

But how does the process of canonization work, really? Can anyone become a saint? And, if so, how? In this gallery, we delve into the history of canonization and the criteria that needs to be met ...

Kagan announced the opening of a diocesan investigation into Duppong's "holiness of life and love for God," officially starting the long and arduous process of canonization to a saint. On Nov. 1 ...

A separate wall will contain information about other Americans in various stages of the canonization process. The shrine will also be organizing a series of events throughout the year leading up ...

Like the usual canonization process, equipollent canonization is an invocation of papal infallibility in which the pope declares that a person is among the saints in heaven. It avoids the formal ...