The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is convening in Orlando for its spring meeting, set to address a wide range of crucial topics. The agenda includes updates on national eucharistic .
Left: Sr. Wanda Boniszewska (1907-2003). (Image: CNA/episkopat.pl); right: Blessed Cyprain Micheal Iwene Tansi (Image: Jennifer Udoka Igboanugo/Wikipedia)
VILNIUS The Church has opened the beatification cause of Sr. Wanda Boniszewska, a Polish nun who was a reputed stigmatist and was tortured by Stalin’s secret police. Being a stigmatist means someone either literally or mystically bore the wounds of Christ’s Passion.
Boniszewska began to have mystical experiences in 1921 that lasted over the next six decades. The Soviet secret police arrested her in 1950. News reports say she was seized in connection with the arrest of a Jesuit priest, Fr. Antoni Ząbek, who served her community and was accused of being “a Vatican spy seeking to undermine the Soviet Union.”
Shreveport Times
Five Roman Catholic priests who died in Shreveport during the yellow fever epidemic of 1873 have been recognized as Servants of God, the first step in the process toward being recognized as a saint.
The Vatican s Congregation for the Causes of the Saints has reviewed their stories and has granted the Diocese of Shreveport permission to begin the process of gathering evidence of the sanctity of the lives and the cult of devotion to Father Jean Pierre, Father Isidore A. Quemerais, Father Jean-Marie Biler, Father Louis Gergaud and Father Francois LeVezouet.
There has never been any sainthood cause from northern Louisiana.