The beatification process for the French priest killed by Islamist terrorists advanced rapidly at first, but now appears stalled at the Vatican.
On July 26, 2016, two Islamist terrorists slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest. He had been close to the end of celebrating Mass in a church in a suburb of Rouen, France. Very quickly, the names of Father Jacques Hamel and the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray went around the world. The news caused widespread shock. The day after this tragic death, on the papal flight to World Youth Day in Krakow, Pope Francis paid tribute
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