Papua New Guinea has its first saint after Pope Francis approved the canonisation of local preacher Peter ToRot. Pope Leo XIV canonised the PNG priest at a mass before an estimated 55,000 people in St ...

Pope Leo XIV canonized seven religious figures who were posthumously boosted to sainthood on Sunday, including a former Satanic priest-turned-Catholic legend. More than 70,000 onlookers turned out to ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday created seven new saints -- among them a onetime Satanic priest who rediscovered his Christian faith. Bells rang out over St Peter's Square for the ceremony, which saw him ...

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed seven new saints on Sunday before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square, including the first saints from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea and a former Satanist who ...

Pope Leo XIV give his blessing at the conclusion of his Mass for the canonization of seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez Pope Leo XIV ...

The Cluny sisters offer literacy and education programs for local children in Papua New Guinea. Education was unavailable ...

‘Indeed, they themselves became lamps capable of spreading the light of Christ,’ Pope Leo XIV said in his homily on Oct. 19. Pope Leo XIV presides at the Oct. 19, 2025, Holy Mass and canonization for ...

Watch live as Pope Leo XIV presides over a canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Square that gives Venezuela and Papua New Guinea their first saints. The seven new saints are José Gregorio Hernández ...

The joy of canonization still fills the air in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where thousands of Catholics gathered in late October to celebrate the nation’s first saint.

Pope Francis greatly limited the use of the traditional Latin Mass, believing it sowed division. Traditionalist Catholics are hoping Pope Leo charts a different path. By Elisabetta Povoledo and Ruth ...