{"id":14851,"date":"2025-11-26T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14851"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:42:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:42:50","slug":"massachusetts-mother-activist-being-considered-for-canonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14851","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts mother & activist being considered for canonization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Great story – not bad for a woman who originally didn’t believe in God. You need to hit the link – excerpt below does not tell the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vatican says sainthood cause for American mom of 7 can move forward<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To kids in the neighborhood east of Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ruth Pakaluk was the mom who baked brownies and blondies for everyone after school and whose home was the starting point for games and fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pro-life activist, Catholic convert, mother of seven, and Harvard graduate died of breast cancer in 1998 at 41. Now, the Diocese of Worcester, where she was living at the time of her death, has the approval of the Vatican\u2019s saints\u2019 dicastery to undertake a formal inquiry into her life, the next step along the path to a possible canonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great story – not bad for a woman who originally didn’t believe in God. You need to hit the link – excerpt below does not tell the story. Vatican says sainthood cause for American mom of 7 can move forward To kids in the neighborhood east of Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ruth Pakaluk was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff","category-consistent-ethic-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14860,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}