In a statement, the Archbishop Oscar Romero U.S. Centennial Commission said it invites churches "to honor Blessed Romero by including a petition or other remembrance during Assumption Day Masses."

Year after year, the slain priest’s childhood church celebrates a special anniversary Mass remembering the sacrifice Rev. Stanley Francis Rother made to serve Mayan descendants in a poor, mountain village 50 miles west of Guatemala City.

In September, the pope will beatify a bishop and a priest filled in the country's decades-long civil war.

Lou McClung has made it his vocation to preserve artifacts from closed churches in Northeast Ohio.

Despite differences of opinion on Cardinal Stepinac's life, the commission members said they were aware that the final decision on his canonization is of "the exclusive competence of the pope"

The pope is opening the way to recognize as saints those who act in ways they know will lead to their certain death.