Illinois Saints

An update on the status of Fulton Sheen’s beatification cause

Venerable Fulton Sheen. (public domain) By Tina Dennelly, Catholic News Agency, August 31, 2023 “Sheen is clean.” That’s the message from Monsignor Jason Gray, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, regarding the status of the cause for beatification of... read more

The Bishop Who Can Unite the Clans

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine. April 22. 2022 In this age of confusion, both in the state and in the Church, not only is it difficult to tell up from down, but it is often hard to find rallying points where we can find common cause with people of good will. In politics, we throw our lot... read more

Vatican officials in U.S. to study alleged miracles in Father Tolton’s cause

Catholic News Service, April 21, 2022 QUINCY, Ill. (CNS) — The local ABC-TV affiliate in Quincy, where Father Augustus Tolton grew up and is buried, reported April 14 that Vatican representatives were in the United States to investigate possible miracles related to the priest’s sainthood... read more

To Canonize a New Catholic Saint, It Takes a Miracle

A drive to name the first Black American saints will need to meet a stringent Vatican standard for verifying divine intercession By Francis X. Rocca, Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2021 Last month at a church in Baltimore, a group of Catholics launched a campaign calling on Pope Francis... read more

Ven. Augustus Tolton’s Spiritual Sons: Black Catholic Priests Ordained in 2021

Three Black Catholics newly ordained to the Catholic priesthood share their vocation journeys. By Peter Jesserer Smith, National Catholic Register, July 13, 2021 NEW ORLEANS — “Do you want to be a priest?” The first time Ajani Gibson heard these words, he was 5 years old staring... read more

Archbishop Fulton Sheen to be beatified

By Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency, Vatican City, Jul 6, 2019 / 04:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis approved the miracle attributed to Archbishop Fulton Sheen Friday, making possible the American television catechist's beatification. The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints... read more

HISTORIC: Catholic Church Nears Canonization Of The First Black American Saint

Father Augustus Tolton By PAUL BOIS, March 18, 2019 The Catholic Church stands on the cusp of making history by canonizing the first black American saint, who is also the first black American priest: former runaway slave Father Augustus Tolton. "A nine-member theological commission at the... read more

Remembering Mary Stachowicz

What does Mary Stachowicz have to do with us? Well, everything. I'm not suggesting that there are homosexuals lining up to torture and kill us; the persecution we face will most likely not provide for the obvious heroism inherent in acts of martyrdom. But what is a saint, if not a role model and... read more

10th anniversary of the brutal murder of Mary Frank Stachowicz.

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the brutal murder of Mary Frank Stachowicz. The following is an excerpt from a commentary written by Philip Lawler of CatholicCultore.org. in 2007: Mary Stachowicz was by all accounts a devout, loyal Catholic woman, the mother of 4 children, who lived on... read more

Mrs. Eileen Dolehide – A Model for All Women

Mr. Kevin Edward White introduced Mrs. Dolehide with the following biographical information. Eileen is a graduate of Little Company of Mary School of Nursing and is an R.N. She practiced her nursing skills for four years before her marriage and the birth of her children. She is the mother of 8... read more

Documents on way to the Vatican – Investigation concludes on claim of miracle attributed to Fulton Sheen

A Dec. 11 Mass in Peoria, Ill., marked the official conclusion of an investigative tribunal into an alleged miracle that many attribute to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Since Sept. 7, the tribunal has looked into the alleged miraculous healing of James Fulton Engstrom - a... read more