This oil on canvas of the five Georgia Martyrs titled “Faith breaks language barriers of the five Martyrs” was created in 2021 by artist Clorinda Galdos Bell. The Franciscan friars’ beatification has been set for Oct. 31, 2026, in Savannah. (OSV News photo/courtesy Clorinda Galdos Bell) While six years separate the two most recent U.S. […]
This oil on canvas of the five Georgia Martyrs titled “Faith breaks language barriers of the five Martyrs” was created in 2021 by artist Clorinda Galdos Bell. The Franciscan friars’ beatification has been set for Oct. 31, 2026, in Savannah. (OSV News photo/courtesy Clorinda Galdos Bell) While six years separate the two most recent U.S. […]
Pope Leo XIV responds to a question about Blessed Fulton J. Sheen asked by OSV News Vatican editor Courtney Mares aboard the papal plane to France Sept. 25, 2026. (OSV News photo/Claudio Lavanga, Vatican journalists’ pool) ABOARD PAPAL PLANE — On the papal flight to Paris Sept. 25, Pope Leo XIV recalled spending time with […]
James Engstrom, then 15, is pictured with an image of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen at his home in Washington, Ill., Jan. 23, 2026. Engstrom, who was born without a pulse on Sept. 16, 2010, and remained clinically dead for an hour before his heart began beating, led to a Church-approved miracle that helped advance […]
Cardinal Luis Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, concelebrates the beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 24, 2026, at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis. Blessed Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller) ST. LOUIS — Archbishop Fulton […]
Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minn., delivers the homily during the vespers for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 23, 2026, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, the eve of his beatification. Archbishop Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller) ST. LOUIS […]
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, pictured in an undated photo as a young man, is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. Groups from across the U.S. are planning pilgrimages to St. Louis for the Sept. 24, 2026, beatification of Archbishop Sheen. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation) Archbishop […]
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, pictured in an undated photo, is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Sheen Foundation) In 1943, at the height of the Second World War, an anonymous source alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s strong criticism of the […]