Tag: Saints
Saint-inspired Martha’s cafe serving ‘with care and love’
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.
Pope Leo raises Mary Glowrey to Venerable
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.
Sainthood cause for Eileen O’Connor enters the next stage
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.
Q&A with Fr Flader: Who was St Jude, the Apostle?
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.
Q&A with Fr Flader: Doctors of the Church
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.
Simcha Fisher: Relics are friends
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.
Q&A with Fr Flader: St Natalia’s dream
Fr Flader, my name is Natalia and I was wondering whether there is a St Natalia. Can you help me?
New young saints encourage faithful to live life to the full,...
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.
Melto D’Moronoyo: A month of Maronite holiness
July is a busy month in the Maronite Church as we celebrate significant figures who allowed the Spirit within to take flight. Among them were early saints and martyrs who died for their beliefs, and modern saints recognised for their ‘heroic virtue’ and the ability to carry out feats perceived as miracles.
Q&A with Fr Flader: The veneration of relics
One of my friends was criticising me and the church for the importance we give to relics. He says they are just parts of dead people or of things they used. How can I answer him?
St George Pell? Maybe.
Reports of a miracle occurring after prayers for Cardinal Pell’s intercession were predictably met with criticism that the cardinal could not be in heaven, much less declared a saint, because of his record on child abuse. It’s time to set the record straight again, writes Monica Doumit.
Dioceses should commemorate their own saints each year, pope says
Starting in the Holy Year 2025, local churches worldwide will annually honour the saints, blesseds and other holy figures connected to their communities, Pope Francis announced.
