‘The canonization … is now clearly on the horizon and is in sight for the coming Jubilee Year,’ head of saints’ office said, according to the official newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference.

Italian Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was a struggling student who excelled in mountain climbing.(CNS file photo) (Aug. 19, 2005) My hands folded, I stared at the woodgrain of the table. I didn’t even ...

The Fellowship of Catholic University Students’ (FOCUS) SEEK conference is set to take place in three cities for the first time in 2026. The conference will be held in Denver; Fort Worth, Texas; and ...

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the first two saints of his papacy in a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday, including the first of the millennial generation. Blesseds Carlo Acutis and ...

Images of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati appear beside and on his tomb at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin, Italy, in this file photo from February 2006. (CNS file photo/Carol Glatz) VATICAN ...

Pope Francis said that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati "will be a saint soon." Known as "the Man of the Eight Beatitudes," he was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1990 after his sainthood cause was ...

Mario Enzler is a senior adviser to the president of The Heritage Foundation and the author of “I Served a Saint.” On Sept. 7, 80,000 worshippers gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Pier Giorgio Frassati was canonised alongside teen saint Carlo Acutis during a ceremony at the Vatican on 7 September 2025. It marked the culmination of a long process for the saint who has come to be ...

This weekend, the Catholic Church will get two new Italian saints, including the church’s first millennial saint. “Blesseds” Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati — who are both beatified, the first ...

Kevin Becker was a college student when he fell off a roof, fracturing his skull in five places, and was given little chance by doctors of surviving or living a normal life if he did make it. But as ...