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Diocese to Explore Canonization Process for Heroic Dad
Confirmed
In Short: The Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, has initiated an exploration into the life of Thomas Vander Woude, inviting community input to potentially pursue his canonization.
The Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, has begun exploring the life of Thomas Vander Woude, inviting input from those who knew him, as part of a potential canonization process.
The Diocese will seek to gather necessary information to make a future decision, with the first step being an official edict posted by Burbidge of the Diocese.
According to the document released by Francis, the criteria for this new path to canonization include a free and voluntary offering of one’s life and a heroic acceptance of imminent death motivated by charity.
While the canonization of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is a source of pride for the Diocese of Peoria, Bishop Louis Tylka has found that Sheen's influence extends far beyond his home state, leading to conversations about his cause wherever he travels.
What's confirmed
- The Catholic Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, has begun exploring the life of Thomas Vander Woude, inviting input from those who knew him, as part of a potential canonization process.
- The Diocese will seek to gather necessary information to make a future decision, with the first step being an official edict posted by Burbidge of the Diocese.
- According to the document released by Francis, the criteria for this new path to canonization include a free and voluntary offering of one’s life and a heroic acceptance of imminent death motivated by charity.
- While the canonization of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is a source of pride for the Diocese of Peoria, Bishop Louis Tylka has found that Sheen's influence extends far beyond his home state, leading to conversations about his cause wherever he travels.
What's still developing
- As he began visiting parishes and talking with priests and laypeople around his new diocese, though, Sheen and his canonization cause came up again and again.
- “Literally no matter where I go in the world, if I say I’m from the Diocese of Peoria, it leads to a conversation about Fulton Sheen,” he said.
- It was 2020, and he had just been named coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Peoria, where Archbishop Sheen was born and raised.
- On a trip to Peoria’s partner diocese in Tanzania, Bishop Tylka brought copies of Sheen’s book “A Priest is Not His Own” to give to several bishops.