... of the church on earth. A newspaper headline read: "Beatification process of missionary moving swiftly after 200-year delay." The story concerned the efforts of the Reverend Noel F. Moholy and others of the faithful to promote the canonization of Father Junipero Serra, the Franciscan missionary, who died at California’s Carmel Mission in 1784. Before a person can be beatified and canonized, it is necessary, in most cases, for someone to make a case for this person’s elevation to sainthood. Fr. Moholy ...
