Fr Ignatius Harrison, the Postulator of the Cause, confirmed to the Catholic Herald that there were now just “two more hoops” for the Cause to jump through before Newman is canonised – approval from a commission of bishops, and a declaration by Pope Francis.
“I am praying for next year, but there’s no way of knowing,” he said.
Another source with knowledge of the Cause told the Herald that panels of both the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints had judged the healing of a woman to be miraculous. The canonisation is likely to take place after Easter 2019.
The Archdiocese of Chicago had investigated the inexplicable healing of a woman who prayed for Newman’s intercession after suffering with with a “life-threatening pregnancy”. Doctors who treated her reported that they had no explanation for her sudden recovery.
So the second miracle received from God through the intercession of John Henry Cardinal Newman (his soul in Heaven praying for the mother and her baby because family and friends asked him too) came from the USA, just like the first.
We've planned eight bi-weekly episodes, starting on Monday, January 7 at 7:45 a.m. Eastern/6:45 a.m. Central. The first two will be dedicated to sketches of his life: first, the Anglican period, then the Catholic period--his life is conveniently divided in half that way since he became a Catholic when he was 44 years old and died almost 45 years later!
Then we will look at themes in Newman's sermons, the Parochial and Plain Sermons of his Anglican service as Rector of the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford and the discourses and sermons of his priesthood as a Oratorian in Birmingham. More about those episodes later.
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