{"id":15264,"date":"2012-07-16T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=15264"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:06:21","slug":"a-former-mormon-moves-closer-to-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/07\/a-former-mormon-moves-closer-to-sainthood\/","title":{"rendered":"A former Mormon moves closer to sainthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

My blogging diaconal brother Scott Dodge from Utah posted this item<\/a>, <\/strong>which indicates the Church could one day have a Saint Cora:<\/p>\n

\"\"A\u00a0Catholic News Agency report<\/a>\u00a0filed on Friday afternoon by Valerie Schmalz from San Francisco announced that the Holy See has paved the way for a complete investigation into the cause for Cora\u2019s canonization. In a letter dater 29 March 2012, the Prefect of the Congregation for Causes of Saints, Angelo Cardinal Amato, granted the necessary\u00a0nihil obstat<\/em>\u00a0for \u201cthe Cause for Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God, Cora Louise Evans.\u201d Lest we get too carried away, there is no certainly she will ultimately be raised to the altar, but the way has been opened for her cause to proceed. In Schmalz\u2019s words, \u201cThe Vatican has approved a complete investigation into the cause of sainthood of a former Mormon wife and mother who reported visions of Jesus and a mission to promote \u201cThe Mystical Humanity of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardinal Amato\u2019s letter was written to Bishop Richard Garcia of Diocese of Monterey in California, who is the ordinary of the place where Cora ended her mortal life and so the one who permitted and promoted her cause going forward up to this point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From CNA:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Evans, who was baptized in 1935 in Utah after becoming disillusioned by the Mormon faith<\/a>, died March 30, 1957, near Monterey. She reported visions of Jesus and the saints and a mission from Jesus to promote the \u201cMystical Humanity of Christ,\u201d the idea that Christ is always within us and we should behave always as Christ would, said Mike McDevitt, a parishioner at Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay, who is the promoter of Evans\u2019 cause of sainthood. The spirituality is also focused on praying the Mass.<\/p>\n

Evans\u2019 two children, husband Mack, and many family and friends followed her from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> into the Catholic faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My blogging diaconal brother Scott Dodge from Utah posted this item, which indicates the Church could one day have a Saint Cora: A\u00a0Catholic News Agency report\u00a0filed on Friday afternoon by Valerie Schmalz from San Francisco announced that the Holy See has paved the way for a complete investigation into the cause for Cora\u2019s canonization. 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