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

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela's beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday before an estimated 55,000 people, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Pope Leo XIV on Monday highlighted the life testimony of the saints canonized Sunday, Oct. 19, as “luminous signs of hope” ...

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