\nanother step on September 22, 2009, with the submission of a supplemental report on
\na potential miracle attributed to the priest’s intercession.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Knights of In the context praying Sext (midday The submission of the “Father McGivney’s beatification would be an important event,” Anderson The cause for Father McGivney’s Father McGivney founded the For pictures of the event see this link<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n <\/font>[this articled was first published at CNA and edited for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The cause for beatification and eventual sainthood of Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, took another step on September 22, 2009, with the submission of a supplemental report on a potential miracle attributed to the priest’s intercession. The Knights of Columbus announced today that officials from a supplemental tribunal of the … Continue reading McGivney’s cause for beatification takes another step<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,25,22],"tags":[32105,1720,2197,32087,1729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
\nColumbus announced today that officials from a supplemental tribunal of the
\nArchdiocese of Hartford<\/a> -of which Fr. McGivney was a parish priest- formally
\nsent a new report to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints<\/a>
\nthrough Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, the current postulator of McGivney’s cause. The
\ninformation gathered by the tribunal included testimonies from witnesses to the
\nsupposed miracle as well as the statements of several medical doctors about the
\ncircumstances surrounding the reported miracle. Dominican Father Gabriel B. O’Donnell,
\nthe current vice-postulator and former postulator, has worked on the cause for a number
\nof years with the assistance of a variety people, not least was Millie Millea, the
\nformer secretary at the McGivney Guild<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nprayer), the brief ceremony in which the new report was signed and presented to
\nArchbishop Henry J. Mansell was attended by Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, other
\nSupreme Officers and other Knights of Columbus officials, three relatives of
\nFather McGivney and a number of archdiocesan officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nnew report “marks an important step forward. The Vatican’s Congregation for the
\nCauses of Saints will now have valuable additional testimony that clarifies and
\nadds significantly to the original submission,” Supreme Knight Carl Anderson
\nsaid.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nadded, “not only for Knights of Columbus, but for the many thousands of parish
\npriests who quietly do the Lord’s work in parishes each day and regard him as
\nan outstanding example for priests everywhere. In this ‘Year for Priests’
\nit is an especially appropriate step forward.” When beatified, McGivney will be
\nthe first US diocesan priest beatified.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nsainthood was opened by Hartford Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin in December 1997. In 2000, the cause was presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints; Pope Benedict XVI declared
\nhim “Venerable Servant of God” on March 15, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nKnights of Columbus in 1882 and died on August 14, 1890 at the age of 38. At the time of
\nthe founding of the Knights of Columbus he was a curate at Saint Mary’s Church
\n(New Haven, CT).<\/span><\/p>\n
\nclarity] <\/font>