Jeanie Hannaman

By J. J. Ziegler, Catholic World Report - Nine new saints and 199 new blesseds—most of them martyrs—were honored in the two canonization ceremonies and 13 beatification ceremonies that took place in 2025... A 2005 curial document notes that “canonization is the supreme glorification by the Church of a Servant of God raised to the honors of the altar with a decree declared definitive and preceptive for the whole Church, involving the solemn Magisterium of the Roman Pontiff.” Canonization is typically preceded by the papal approval of a miracle attributed to the saint’s intercession.

By Fr. Ed Broom, OMV, Catholic Exchange - One of the concrete manifestations of growing in good will towards God is by writing out, in a clear and practical way, a “Plan of Life.” The aim is to improve our lives and make them more pleasing to God. So let us make the Psalmist’s prayer our own: “O Lord give success to the work of our hands.”... A Plan of Life ought to bring order to whatever is disordered in our lives. Due to sin, our lives are marked by upheaval, confusion, and disorder. Opposing this is the Holy Spirit, who brings about good order. From this order comes peace of heart, mind, and soul. The Augustinian definition of peace is “tranquility of order.”