Pope Leo XIV named José Gregorio Hernández and Mother Carmen Rendiles Martínez as Venezuela ’s first saints on Sunday.

Pope Leo proclaimed seven new saints, including the first saints from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea, to 70,000 people in St.

Over the weekend, activists connected to the opposition political movement Vente Venezuela shared posts on Instagram ...

Pope Leo XIV declared seven new saints before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square at the canonization Mass on ...

Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people. He has given the South ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke about the central importance of faith in today’s world as he declared that the Catholic Church has seven ...

Among the other new saints were two martyrs. Peter To Rot, a lay catechist martyred in Papua New Guinea during the Japanese ...

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said Pope Francis had done the country “justice” after its first saints were canonised ...

Church bells rang out and fireworks burst in the sky Sunday as Venezuela -- mired in crisis -- welcomed the canonization of ...

The Italian nuns canonized are Vincenza Maria Poloni, the 19th-century founder of Verona's Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, ...