Volume 14, Number 8. The Vatican has notified the Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn., that the cause for sainthood of Knights of Columbus founder Father Michael J. McGivney can proceed. Dominican Father Gabriel B. O'Donnell, postulator of Father McGivney's cause, said the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and other pertinent Vatican congregations informed the archdiocese in October that there were no serious objections to the opening of the cause and proceeding with the diocesan phase of the canonization process. Father McGivney served at St. Mary's Church in New Haven, Conn. from 1877 to 1884. Concerned with the plight of the wives and children left destitute by the death of working men in his parish, he founded the Knights of Columbus with a small group of Catholic laymen in 1882.
Additional procedures can lead to the eventual canonization of the candidate.
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