Tag: Saints

“The Presbyterian story crumbled that night. Mary was no threat to faith. The holiness of the saints was entirely about Our Lord and not our selves,” writes Professor Hayden Ramsay.

St Luke the Evangelist Parish in Revesby has installed a first-class relic of the Ulma family, the Polish Catholic family killed by the Nazis in 1944 for sheltering their Jewish neighbours.

Five Franciscan missionaries who gave their lives for the faith on the coast of present-day Georgia will be beatified later this year. Who where they and how did they die?

Revered across the Orthodox world and admired by Catholics, St Seraphim of Sarov's life of prayer, humility and holiness continues to inspire Christians more than two centuries after his death.

Nestled in the micro-suburb of Wareemba in Sydney, Martha’s is a bakery serving Middle Eastern and European-inspired pastries with a side of the divine. Co-founded by Paris Nassif and Nathan Lorenti and opened in September 2025, the bakery takes its name from St Martha, the patron saint of cooks.

The cause for sainthood for Australian-born doctor and missionary in India Mary Glowrey has advanced after Pope Leo XIV recognised her ‘heroic virtues’ on 21 November 2025.

Documents relating to the cause of Servant of God Eileen O’Connor were formally presented to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. Now the outcome is largely up to the faithful asking for her intercession for healing, for without a documented and proven miracle, the cause will stagnate, writes her Roman postulator Fr Martin Roestenburg O.Praem.

The church recently celebrated the feast of the apostles Simon and Jude. Can you tell me what we know about St Jude, and why he is sometimes called the saint of hopeless causes? Fr John Flader has the answers.

Pope Leo XIV is soon to proclaim St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. Can you please tell me what criterion is used to make this decision? Also, could a lay person be named a Doctor? And what sort of writings must church Doctors have produced? Fr John Flader explains all.

Catholics (and before that, ancient Jews) have always cherished and venerated physical relics of their holy dead, even – or especially – when the rest of the world found that practice creepy or dangerous or just kind of gross.

Fr Flader, my name is Natalia and I was wondering whether there is a St Natalia. Can you help me?

The greatest risk in life is to waste it by not seeking to follow God's plan, Pope Leo XIV said, proclaiming two new saints, Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis.