Thousands of Indian Catholics cheered waving their national flag in St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception and called for an end to ...

Chennai: Kerala nun Sister Alphonsa became the first Indian woman saint around 1.42 pm (IST) on Sunday, when Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed her and three others as saints at a special ceremony held at ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters Life!) - A film about a Roman Catholic nun who was declared India's first woman saint, opens in cinemas in November, just weeks after the Pope canonized her in a ...

Leaders of the Syro-Malabar rite of the Catholic Church have expressed joy at the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa, a nun from the church. They say it is an important acknowledgement of a church that ...

The Berkshires may one day be able to claim a Catholic saint was born here. Mother Mary Alphonsa, founder of the Dominican Order of St. Rose of Lima, was declared a "Servant of God" in 2003 by the ...