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CAUSE OF CANONIZATION ENRIQUE SHAW
1962 – 27/08 Enrique Shaw dies at 41 years of age.
1967 – There is reliable data showing that the priest Paulino (Obra del Cardenal Ferrari) R.P. Francisco Rotger, began to collect information for an eventual opening of the cause, but died shortly after and it has not been possible to know how far he advanced. Nothing has been found in his community in Italy.
1984 – In the first edition of Ambrosio Romero Carranza's book, the author explicitly asks if Enrique's life plan was not aimed to achieve holiness (p. 217- 2nd Ed. - 1998). However, no initiative emerged at the time to request the opening of the cause.
1996 – For several years meetings were held to consider "what to do" in relation to Enrique, in March 1996 something new happened, when the question about "what to do" was reiterated in a meeting of "Encuentro". Bishop Iriarte suggested consulting to Cecilia Bunge of Shaw as a preliminary step, and with her agreement a series of meetings are initiated. Messrs. Hernando Campos Menéndez, Praxiteles Broussalis and Juan Cavo participate, then Ignacio Llorente, Recaredo Vázquez and Fernando Braconi. On the recommendation of Bishop Iriarte, a contact was made in the Curia with Bishop Rodhe, who advises in the early stages. Search of written testimonies began. The group worked prudently and with a very low profile. It begins to have written records of the proceedings. Among them was the conviction, because of the testimonies collected, that Enrique had been an extraordinary Christian and that he had levels of holiness within.
At the ACDE Lunch Forum (12/09/1996), Cardinal Jorge Mejía makes a surprise public invitation for the institution that Enrique founded to promote his Canonization cause. He had assisted Enrique as a friend and priest during the final period of his life. This is stated in the testimony that has been issued for the opening of the cause. From that moment on, the “Enrique Shaw Commission” was created in ACDE.
1997 - 27/05, ACDE requests to be formally considered as Plaintiff in the cause, and the procedures for the "preliminary stage" to the Canonization process are initiated.
1999 - On 13/10, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, S.E.R. Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio approves the Postulator designated by ACDE, Lic. Juan Luis Mario Cavo. 16/11, an Ecclesiastical Tribunal “ne pereant probationes” is constituted for testimonial statements.
2000 - In January, Fr. Mario Poli presents the theological view of the written works of Enrique Shaw.
2001 - On 18/04, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires positively consulted the Bishops on the opportunity to initiate the Cause.
On 26/06, Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio designate a Commission of Experts in History, to collect all the unpublished writings and historical documents, whether handwritten or already published, that are related to the Cause.
On 16/07, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio petitioned the “nihil obstat” to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in Rome. On 25/09, José Cardinal Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints sent the “nihil obstat” for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the faithful Lay and family father Enrique Ernesto Shaw. This means that there are no obstacles in the Roman Dicasteries for the mentioned Cause.