There were giants in the earth in those days;
Genesis 6: 4
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
He was a hero to we young Catholics back then….and the world thinks we’ve progressed.
The process can take a long time. There’s a chapel near me with a stained glass window of Blessed Joan of Arc. One of my personal favorite saints, Thomas More, it seems like every ugly modern suburban church I walk into is named after him, because he wasn’t canonized until the 20th century. Still, good for Cardinal Wysynski. It’s hard to imagine that he’s not in Heaven.
Will there ever be a canonized saint from the internet era? Part of the review process is examining all of a candidate’s writings. That’s barely possible with a Sheen.
Will there ever be a canonized saint from the internet era?
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/world/europe/millennial-saint-carlo-acutis.amp.html
Ooh, good.
Chiara Badano: (1971-1990) Beatified by Pope Benedict 2010
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara_Badano
Matteo Farina: (1990-2009), made venerable May 2020 (Pope Francis)
https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/italian-teen-declared-venerable-pope-francis/66009
Don’t know what makes the process of one cause speedier than another cause…So I don’t understand why the causes of Cardinal Stefan Wyszinski and Fulton Sheen have taken so long.
Cardinal Mindszenty and Cardinal Wyszinski were heroes in our house growing up. My parents were anti-Communist. My father had been in Berlin end of WWII.
Plus my parents heard about the Soviets first hand. In the MD apartment complex where we lived for 3 years the resident maintenance man and his wife were a count and countess, Hungarian refugees from revolution in ’50s. I was very young so don’t remember much except that Mindszenty was tortured and imprisoned. Also vaguely can see in my mind’s eye gristly pictures of the uprising in Look or Life.
“On Sept. 3, 2014, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced that the canonization cause of Archbishop Fulton Sheen suspended because of a dispute between the Diocese of Peoria and the Archdiocese of New York because of a legal dispute over Sheen’s mortal remains. The dispute centered on a tension between the desire of Sheen’s closest living relative, Joan Sheen Cunningham, to have Sheen interred at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria and a statement in Sheen’s will asking for interment in a New York cemetery. This was finally resolved in June of 2019 when the New York State Court of Appeals refused to hear any further appeals in the case, definitively granting Joan Sheen Cunningham’s request.
“Sheen’s body was moved to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria on June 27, 2019 and his cause was officially re-opened. On July 6, 2019, Pope Francis formally approved the miracle attributed to the intercession of Sheen, paving the way for Sheen to be beatified.”
https://fulton-sheen.catholic.edu/cause/index.html