If St. Teresa Benedicta is named a doctor of the Church, she would join 37 other saints with that title, four of whom are women: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), pictured in 1938-1939.

If accepted, Stein, also known by her religious name St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, could become the fifth woman to be declared a doctor of the Church. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), ...

Jacob Adams is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jacob. Pope Leo XIV on Thursday confirmed that St. John Henry Newman will soon be recognized as a Doctor of the Church. The ...

The Catholic Church will soon have a new Doctor of the Church: the English convert, theologian, author, and poet St. John Henry Newman. The Holy See announced the decision Thursday, although an exact ...

Pope Leo XIV leaves after presiding over Mass with participants in the Jubilee of the Educational World on the Solemnity of All Saints, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, on Nov. 1 during which he ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV on Saturday bestowed one of the Catholic Church's highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, the deeply influential 19th- century British convert and theologian, declaring ...

Tomorrow, Nov. 1, Pope Leo XIV will officially proclaim St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church. The pope's namesake, Leo XIII, created Newman a cardinal in 1879. In 2019 in a Mass at the Vatican ...