Congolese Layperson Floribert Bwana Chui to Be Beatified in Rome on 15 June 2025

Story behind beatification of Poland’s Father Stanisław Streich is one of quiet courage

On Feb. 27, 1938, during a Sunday morning Mass for children, Father Streich was gunned down by a radical communist during the consecration of the Eucharist.

Congolese layperson Floribert Bwana Chui to be beatified in Rome on 15 June 2025

“Recognised as a martyr of honesty and moral integrity,” Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi will be beatified on Sunday, 15 June 2025, in Rome, at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, during the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity. In announcing this “joyful event,” the Bishop of Goma, Bishop Willy Ngumbi M. Afr., indicated that the location and date were communicated by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. Read all

Pope Leo XIV to meet cardinals at consistory to approve canonizations

Pope Leo XIV smiles during his first general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, May 21, 2025 / 10:46 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV will hold a meeting of cardinals on June 13 to give the final approval to the canonizations of several beatified men and women. The ordinary public consistory, as it is called, will be the first of Leo’s pontificate. Pope Francis had called for the consistory in late Fe…

Story behind beatification of Poland's Father Stanislaw Streich is one of quiet courage - Catholic Review

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — In one of the first beatifications under Pope Leo XIV, the church in Poland is preparing to celebrate the beatification of Father Stanislaw Streich, a humble parish priest murdered at the altar in 1938. On May 24, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, will preside over the ceremony in Poznan, recognizing Father Streich as a martyr killed “in odium fidei” — “in hatred of the fai…

Leo XIV always has very reasonable views: Bishop Norbert Strotmann draws the lines from his experiences in Peru to the new pontificate in the interview.

They will be the first saints of the Venezuelan Church A month after the death of Pope Francis, the Consistory of Cardinals has been convened for June 13, in which the date of canonization of José Gregorio Hernández and Mother Carmen Rendiles will be defined. This information was given by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas, Raúl Biord Castillo, from the Vatican City, in Rome, when he said that “this is a great gift given to us by Pope Leo XI…