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Pope Francis presided Monday over a consistory, or meeting, of cardinals, during which the cardinals voted to approve the canonizations of seven people. Among the blesseds who will soon be canonized is Devasahayam Pillai, the first lay Catholic in India to be declared a saint. The dates and locations of the seven canonizations have not yet been announced.
May third would have been the thirtieth birthday of Blessed Carlo Acutis, and Catholics across the world are celebrating Carlo’s birthday. Carlo, who died in 2006 at age 15, had a love for the Eucharist and was good with computers. Carlo became the first millennial to be declared blessed by the Catholic Church, in October 2020.
President Joe Biden has raised the refugee admissions cap for the current fiscal year, from 15,000 to 62,500. The chair of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee had said last month that the cap of 15,000 was, quote, far short of what we can do as a country.
The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church says they are hoping for a visit from Pope Francis, despite the ongoing challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Pope Francis has repeatedly appealed for peace in Ukraine, where Ukrainian and Russian forces have clashed in the east of the country since February 2014.
Today the Church celebrates the English Carthusian Martyrs, who were monks put to death in England under King Henry VIII in the sixteenth century for maintaining their allegiance to the Pope.