Beatification Process
On 16 September 2007, the fifth anniversary of the cardinal’s death, the Roman Catholic Church began the beatification process for Nguyễn Văn Thuận.
Pope Benedict XVI expressed "profound joy" at news of the official opening of the beatification cause.
Roman Catholics in Vietnam also positively received the news on beatification process opening for the cardinal. In the words of a catechist from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hồ Chí Minh City, “Nguyễn Văn Thuận is an example of holiness for Vietnamese Catholics and for the entire world.”
In his 2007 encyclical, Spe Salvi, Benedict XVI referred to Thuận's Prayers of Hope, saying:
"During thirteen years in jail, in a situation of seemingly utter hopelessness, the fact that he could listen and speak to God became for him an increasing power of hope, which enabled him, after his release, to become for people all over the world a witness to hope—to that great hope which does not wane even in the nights of solitude."
Dr. Waldery Hilgeman is Postulator of the Cause for Thuận's canonization.
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