By Simone Orendain, OSV News
CHICAGO OSV News – A new documentary series on Black Catholics on the sainthood track is set to kickoff Nov. 2 on the Archdiocese of Boston’s CatholicTV network.
During Black Catholic History Month, celebrated every November in the U.S., the half-hour documentaries about six African American Catholics with sainthood causes in the United States will highlight lives of extraordinary service – driven by love – according to the show’s host.
By Kathleen N. Hattrup | Aleteia
Pope Leo XIV noted the five new Blesseds who were beatified on October 31 in Georgia. After praying the Sunday midday Angelus, he invited the faithful: “Let us invoke the intercession of these martyrs for all missionaries of the Gospel.”
On October 24, another spiritual son of St. Padre Pio was recognized as “venerable” in the Catholic Church. His name is Brother Daniele Natale and he was very close to Padre Pio, the famous mystic, during his life, having been born in the same town of San Giovanni Rotondo and later spending time with him when he became a lay brother in his same religious order.
