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Here is the miracle that now paves the way for Pier Giorgio Frassati's canonization
Pope Francis recognized a miracle attributed to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati's intercession on Monday, paving the way for his canonization as a saint during the Catholic Church's Jubilee of Youth next summer.
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In Singapore, Spain and Poland Catholic communities in shock after attacks on priests
(OSV News) -- A cardinal in Singapore has called for religious and racial unity after a priest was stabbed in the face during Mass, an incident that has sent shock waves across the city-state. Meanwhile, in Spain, one friar died and seven were wounded in an attack on the monastery in Gilet, in the region of flood-hit Valencia, and a priest in Poland died a week after he was attacked with an ax inside his parish rectory in Szczytno.
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Nicaragua bars priests from anointing the dying in hospitals
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, is preventing priests from entering hospitals in Nicaragua to administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick to those who need it, according to lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, author of the report "Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?"
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