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JUNE 23 AND 30, 2011 Volume LXXXV • Number 32 www.evangelist.org
FATHER’S DAY/PARENTING A three-page special section discusses advice from dads, praying with children, parenting triplets, “cry rooms” and getting teens to Mass: Pages 9-11
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‘Rosary priest’ steps toward sainthood Mass to honor Father Peyton BY JAMES BREIG
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The sainthood cause of Rev. Patrick Peyton, the Holy Cross priest whose worldwide Family Rosary ministry was based in Albany, will take a major step forward during a June 28 Mass at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Albany. At the Mass, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard will formally receive the results of an investigation into a possible miracle attributed to Father Peyton’s intercession. While some details of the miracle are kept confidential, such as the identity of the person receiving the possibly miraculous cure, it is known that the case involved someone who was being treated at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. “He was suffering from lifethreatening multiple organ failure,” said Rev. John Phalen, CSC, president of Holy Cross Family Ministries in North Easton, Mass. After the family prayed the Rosary, asking for Father Peyton’s help, the man recov-
HOLY CROSS FATHER Patrick Peyton spent the 51 years of his priesthood (from his 1941 ordination to his 1992 death) serving the spiritual needs of families, encouraging them to pray together daily, especially the Rosary. He was known worldwide as “the Rosary Priest.” After immigrating to the United States from Ireland in 1928 at age 19, he survived tuberculosis as a result of what he believed was the intercession of the Blessed Mother. Father Peyton founded Family Rosary in Albany soon after being ordained. From there, he conducted Rosary crusades in 40 countries that drew 28 million people, including two million each at events in Brazil and the Philippines. Through Family Theater Productions, which he created in Hollywood in 1947, he also produced 600 radio and TV programs that featured hundreds of celebrities. (For information, see www.familyrosary.org and www.fatherpeyton.org.) (CNS photo) ered — something medical personnel did not think was possible.
Grateful recipient
“I have met the man,” Father Phalen said. “He is very grateful. He has been given a reprieve. He’s thrilled about that. I get the impression that he’s much more religious now. He feels he’s living his life out of gratitude.” The priest added that the man is also “excited” about the possibility of being the miracle needed to move Father Peyton through the process to sainthood. Currently, Father Peyton — who coined the phrase “the family that prays together stays
together” — is in the first stages of the process of canonization. “A saint needs one miracle to be declared blessed and one for sainthood,” Father Phalen explained. “Before that, Father Peyton needs to be declared venerable. “The witness interviews needed for that step are finished, and 16,000 pages of information have been sent to Rome. When they have been digested by the Congregation of Saints at the Vatican, we hope he will be declared venerable.” Father Phalen does not know how long that process might ‘ROSARY PRIEST’ STEPS TOWARD SAINTHOOD, SEE PAGE 13
THERESA LAPOINT GETS A HUG from Rev. Joseph Manerowski for her help during renovations to St. Mary’s Church in Glens Falls, which was rededicated last weekend. For more photos of the ceremony, see page 3. (Nate Whitchurch photo) ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Vatican to businesses: Please be ethical! BY CAROL GLATZ
C AT H O L I C N E WS S E RV I C E
Vatican City — The Vatican and some Catholic thinkers are urging businesses to not only employ ethical policies within their companies, but to become dedicated to bringing economic justice to the wider world. In fact, people should be wary of superficial ethical practices that “are adopted primarily as a marketing device, without any effect on relationships inside and outside the business itself ” and without promoting justice and the common good, said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state.
Cardinal Bertone was one of a number of speakers invited to the Executive Summit on Ethics for the Business World, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Legionaries of Christ’s Fidelis For another International story on peace I n s t i t u t e , and justice which pro- issues, turn to motes ethics page 8. in business. The June 16-17 conference brought high-profile leaders from the manufacturing, indusVATICAN TO BUSINESSES: PLEASE BE ETHICAL!, SEE PAGE 28
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‘Rosary priest’ steps toward sainthood
SAINTHOOD PROCESS
HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A SAINT?
‘ROSARY PRIEST’ STEPS TOWARD SAINTHOOD, FROM PAGE 1
take. Meanwhile, the miracle in Albany will be on hold for presentation to the Vatican when the time is right.
Another miracle That case is not the first one attributed to Father Peyton’s intercession. An earlier cure in Uganda has also been studied and is ready to be submitted to Rome. The investigation into the Albany miracle, which occurred about three years ago, was done by the Albany diocesan Tribunal. An independent and objective examination by doctors is a key part in the process. A natural recovery from an illness, even a severe one, is not considered a miracle. “It’s difficult to have a miracle accepted by the Vatican,” Father Phalen noted. “But this cure had to be by divine intercession. It’s not explainable medically.”
Albany connections He expressed his appreciation to the Tribunal and the Bishop for “all of the hard work put into this investigation. It required a lot of time and effort.” Attesting to the importance of the Mass will be the presence of Revs. Hugh Cleary and Tom Looney, former superior general
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and current provincial, respectively, of the Holy Cross Congregation. Asked to estimate when Father Peyton would be declared venerable, opening the way to the submission of the miracle to the Vatican, Father Phalen replied, “It depends on God’s timing, not ours. A number of sainthood causes wait a long time. “I am encouraged that we have two miracles to offer,” he added. “The Vatican knows about them.” He said that “it’s significant that the miracle happened in Albany because Father Peyton worked for so many years out of Albany. It’s a wonderful, providential reality that the man who was cured was in a hospital in the city where Father Peyton’s ministry began.”
The stages of canonization are: 1. Servant of God: A diocese, parish, religious congregation etc. requests an investigation by the Holy See. If granted, the candidate receives the title of Servant of God. 2. Venerable: The declaration of a person’s heroic virtues, after which his/her title is Venerable,
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BLESSED KATERI TEKAKWITHA, a statue of whom is pictured at left from the national shrine dedicated to her in Fonda, is one step away from sainthood. The 17th-century Algonquin-Mohawk woman could become the first Native American Catholic saint. Her feast is July 14. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
Rev. John Phalen, CSC, national director of Rosary Life ministries, will conduct a two-week Rosary Camp at St. Mary’s parish in Cooperstown, July 2-16. There will be a morning session, 10 a.m.-noon; an afternoon gathering, 2-4 p.m.; and an evening session with family movie time, 6-8 p.m. For information, call Laetitia Rhatigan, 4533082.
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is made after an in-depth investigation into his/her life. 3. Blessed: The candidate is declared Blessed once a miracle is attributed to the intercession of the candidate. 4. Saint: The Holy Father declares the candidate to be a saint after a second miracle is attributed to their intercession. (JB)
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