Indeed, were it not for martyrdom, we would have very few child saints. Of course, in the early Church, there were martyr saints such as Tarcisius, Agatha, Agnes and Faith.

COMMENTARY: The liturgical memorial of the Ugandan martyrs is a fitting reminder to recommit to the Catholic Church’s fight against sexual predation against the young and vulnerable.

Pope Francis on Sunday canonized three indigenous child martyrs from the 16th ... They were among 35 Roman Catholic saints who were canonized on Sunday during a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square ...

Pope Francis is making five more child saints: two Portuguese shepherd children who said the Virgin Mary appeared to them in Fatima 100 years ago and three Mexican adolescents who were killed for ...

Pope canonizes Fatima visionaries, giving church new child saints (Reuters) Hundreds of thousands of people broke into applause as the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics proclaimed the ...

On Saturday, the two were canonized by Pope Francis in a large outdoor mass in Fatima, becoming the youngest saints in Catholic history who were not martyrs. News Today's news ...

Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died at the age of 15, is on the path to becoming a saint. A scholar explains the long history of child saints in the Catholic Church.

In 1920, Pope Benedict XV beatified 22 Catholic martyrs, opening the way for their eventual declaration as saints in 1964. It was the culmination of a journey that started in 1886.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is making five more child saints: Two Portuguese shepherd children who said the Virgin Mary appeared to them in Fatima 100 years ago, and ...