After 61 minutes, just as emergency room personnel were about to pronounce him dead, James Fulton Engstrom began to breathe and his heart rate shot up to a normal level for a newborn.

Pope Francis has approved a miracle bringing the late American Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen closer to sainthood.

A few prayers to Blessed John Henry Newman became a "constant dialogue" and then a desperate response to an emergency for Melissa Villalobos of Chicago.

Pope Francis will declare Blessed John Henry Newman, the 19th-century British cardinal, a saint Oct. 13.

Bishop Jenky said the sainthood cause for the archbishop, a native of the Peoria Diocese, has resumed.

Chloe Becker was upset when she realized she could not name a single African or African-American saint.