A New Resting Place for a Servant of God – CatholicPhilly.com
Story by Fr. Thomas Dailey, O.S.F.S. for CatholicPhilly.com. Read the full story and see more photos on their website. Fr. Bill Atkinson has a new home – at least here below. On June 14, in a ceremony presided over by Archbishop Nelson Pérez, the mortal remains of the Servant of God were “translated” (i.e., moved) […]
Future Saint Father Bill Atkinson Reinterred in St. Thomas of Villanova Church | From the Desk of Fr. Rob
June 26, 2024 Dear Friends in Christ, Our Augustinian brother, and Servant of God, Fr. Bill Atkinson, O.S.A. has returned home. On June 14, in a private ceremony, Fr. Bill’s remains were translated and reinterred to the church of St. Thomas of Villanova on the campus of Villanova University. He was laid to rest forever […]
Fr. Bill Atkinson, O.S.A. Symposium at Villanova | From the Desk of Fr. Rob
November 1, 2023 Dear friend of the Augustinians, On Tuesday, October 3, over 150 people joined the Augustinian Friars, special lecturers, and friends and family of Servant of God Fr. Bill Atkinson, O.S.A. for a special symposium discussing Fr. Bill’s extraordinary life and the Cause for his beatification and canonization. We Augustinians are very excited and invested […]
Prayer Service Celebrates Golden Anniversary of Fr. Bill Atkinson, O.S.A.’s Dispensation
Story by Karen Knight of the Cape May County Herald. Read the full story and see more photos on their website. Family and friends gathered in Ocean City, NJ on August 1 for a 50th anniversary prayer service commemorating the date of the telegram from Pope Paul VI granting dispensation for the ordination of the […]
Father Bill Atkinson canonization cause completes first phase, moves onto Rome.
“There’s something very ordinary about Father Bill in terms of how he did his work,” Father Michael said. “The extraordinary part was that he did his work, his ministry, exercised his priesthood in the context of great limitation—a physical limitation, but certainly not any limitation in terms of his mental ability or his will and […]
Photos: Documents in Father Atkinson’s cause presented in ceremony
From CatholicPhilly.com: Archbishop Nelson Perez and officials working on the cause for sainthood of Father Bill Atkinson, the Augustinian who was the first quadriplegic priest in the world to be ordained, affixed signatures and seals for more than 3,000 pages of documentation on the late priest to the Vatican for further review. (Photos by Sarah […]
‘ExtraOrdinary’: WHYY to air film about former Monsignor Bonner teacher who could someday be named a saint
From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Plenty of people had a high school teacher they admired, but few make a movie about that teacher. Fewer still think someone who taught them might have been a saint. For Tom Farrell, executive producer of ExtraOrdinary: The Bill Atkinson Story (5 p.m. Sunday, WHYY12), the thought that the quadriplegic priest he had […]
Nationwide Premiere of extraORDINARY, The Bill Atkinson Story
The nationwide premiere of “extraORDINARY, The Bill Atkinson Story,” a powerful documentary on the life and impact of Augustinian Friar, Fr. Bill Atkison, O.S.A., the first quadriplegic priest in the history of the Catholic Church will be aired on PBS station WHYY in Philadelphia on All Saints Day, Sunday, November 1st at 5 p.m. In 1965, a tobogganing accident left 19-year-old Bill Atkinson paralyzed […]
Newsbreak: Community Briefs: Documentary about Rev. Bill Atkinson to air on PBS
From NewsBreak.com: RADNOR — The world television premiere of “extraORDINARY / The Bill Atkinson Story,” the inspiring documentary film about the first quadriplegic priest to be ordained in the Catholic Church’s history, will be aired on PBS station WHYY/Philadelphia on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 5 p.m. in celebration of All Saints Day.
Documentary about Rev. Bill Atkinson to air on PBS
From The Daily Times: ‘Documentary about Rev. Bill Atkinson to air on PBS’. Click image to view story.
