The six-day certification course aims to teach ‘how to honor deserving candidates and expedite their path to sainthood in the Vatican,’ according to the center’s website.

The patron saint of 'America' is Edmund Campion, S.J.—for several different reasons.

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who dedicated his life to serving the poor and sick, will be canonized together on Sept. 7.

Blessed Carlo Acutis offers a counterexample for our digital age: a teenager who embraced technology not as an escape, but as a tool for communion—with others, and with God.

Although Pope Francis already set Aug. 3 as the date to declare the sainthood of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope Leo XIV will hold a meeting with cardinals to approve his canonization and that of seven other people.

We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.