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By Kevin T. DiCamillo, Crisis Magazine - But we had all been hoodwinked: Bishop Fisher, who has absolutely no ties to any part of Western New York—indeed, his ecclesiastical career was based in Washington, D.C., under former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl, and had never reached past the Mason-Dixon Line—had acted in bad faith. He took advantage of a young pastor’s obedience and the people of St. Raphael’s parish by having us pay for a paint job he capriciously and arbitrarily ordered, only to close and sell the very same church he had visited exactly twice: once to confirm the faithful (and complain to the pastor) and once to shut it down.

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.