Any Stellar Saints Being Formed in the Catholic Church Today?

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Are there any saints being formed by the Catholic Church today that are on the stature of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina or St. Jean Marie Vianney?

Stories of holy people, laity, clergy, religious?
 
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Until we die, it is rash to assume someone is “bound for heaven” as that is between the person and God. We are each commanded to strive for perfection as our Father in Heaven is perfect. Every Christian I know is striving for heaven!
 
First of all, all saints are “on the stature of” well, saints. They all lived heroic lives of virtue, they all are enjoying the Beatific Vision. We don’t play “rank 'em” with saints.

Second, many saints are extremely revered within a particular country or culture. If we don’t live there then we likely don’t appreciate the importance of the saint to the people who revere that saint. Padre Pio wasn’t even all that well known for quite a long time; he was primarily loved by Italian-Americans when I was growing up, and a lot of others had never heard of him or only vaguely (and then they might have heard that some Pope or other had reprimanded him for some supposed misdeed).

Third, if you’re talking about deceased people, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of potential saints who were very holy, going through the sainthood process right now. If you’re talking about living people. Little Lady is right, it is rash to make assumptions. Many people for example referred to Jean Vanier as saintly when he was alive. Obviously they did not have all the facts, and now that he is dead and the facts have come out, it’s clear he will never be a canonized saint and that we should probably pray for his soul to make it to Heaven.
 
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I think the people who died in the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka last year had just been baptised or something. Wouldn’t they be saints?
 
I’m sure that there will be at least a few millennials canonized in the years to come. Future artists will portray them holding avocado toast and struggling with crippling student loan debt.
 
When I was teaching teens, every year on All Soul’s would take them to the cemetery. We would discuss how many saints are likely buried in our small town cemetery. Just because they are not canonized does not mean they are any less in heaven!
 
Ok, so I will try this again in a different category, with clarifications:

Are there any saints being formed by the Catholic Church today that are on the spiritual stature of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina or St. Jean Marie Vianney? Keep in mind I am referring to what would equate in the Eastern Orthodox tradition of a holy elder, someone with great spiritual gifts, known for ascetic deeds and deep insight into the souls of men.

Stories of holy people, laity, clergy, religious who are living?
 
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Ok, so I will try this again in a different category, with clarifications:

Are there any saints being formed by the Catholic Church today that are on the spiritual stature of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina or St. Jean Marie Vianney? Keep in mind I am referring to what would equate in the Eastern Orthodox tradition of a holy elder, someone with great spiritual gifts, known for ascetic deeds and deep insight into the souls of men.

Stories of holy people, laity, clergy, religious who are living?
Besides Mother Angelica who died a few years ago, I can’t think of someone who is internationally known.

But I think we all know individual priests, sisters, etc who are very saintly.
 
They would be martyrs and thus might eventually be beatified. They would need more than just being martyred to become canonized saints.
 
Besides Mother Angelica who died a few years ago, I can’t think of someone who is internationally known.
Mother Angelica does not yet have an official sainthood cause. My guess is that they are waiting for the fifth anniversary of her death to officially start one, as the process normally requires. The fourth anniversary of her death just passed. Her mentor Rhoda Wise does have an official cause but was not known for the things the OP is suggesting. Rhoda had spiritual gifts and was a stigmatic but she was a very simple lady, not a “holy elder” type.
 
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Pertaining to the current coronary outbreak, I read about an older Italian priest who contracted the virus, fell sick and refused a ventilator to give to someone else a chance of survival - reminded me of Maximillian Kolbe!
 
Well, if you are adressing people who are alive today, I am not sure anyone can give an answer.
But, we can hope that there are many holy and devout souls walking on Earth right now which are close to the Lord, from laity and youth to religious and clergy. That is as far as I will go to answer, because we just don’t know.
 
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There are plenty of modern saints: Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, Pope John XXIII, Ven. Fulton Sheen, Blessed Chiara Petrillo…

Then there are the myriad of martyrs who have died recently under ISIS, not to mention the souls who died in the Nazi concentration camps and the Russian gulags.

The stories are all out there, and Google is your friend. 😉
 
Are there any saints being formed by the Catholic Church today that are on the spiritual stature of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina or St. Jean Marie Vianney?
Padre Pio was forbidden from saying Mass in public, blessing people, answering letters, showing his stigmata publicly, and communicating with Padre Benedetto, his spiritual director. He was also described as “narrow minded” and “mentally deficient”.

For his part Jean Vianney struggled academically when in the seminary, got lost trying to find his first parish, found the people to be indifferent and ignorant and tried to run away several times. There’s also a story that the parishioners circulated a letter calling for his removal which was accidentally sent to him. He signed it and sent it on!

Saints it seems are not always as easy to spot as we might think!
 
Graduation leads only to death. Remember The Godfather’s 1980s song: “Birth, School, Work, Death”?

Yeah.
 
Saints it seems are not always as easy to spot as we might think!
Great reply!

I think he meant living holy men and women with the greater gifts - Spiritual Directorship by clairvoyance, for instance, or being in more than one place at one time… Altering time, perhaps, by extension or contraction… Healing the sick…

Padre Pio had the first, I believe, among perhaps others…

And he was known to have had them…

Are there any Padre Pio’s today?

I know there are some in the EOC - A fair number, actually… Not well known outside the Faith, normally…

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