Fr Patrick Peyton, an Irish-American priest whose popular radio and television programmes promoted family prayer, is a step closer to canonisation.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore recently completed an exhaustive investigation into Fr Peyton’s life and ministry, and archdiocesan officials have sent copies of its 16,000-page report to the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes.
Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore celebrated the closing of the archdiocesan inquiry with a Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
