Upper Darby’s Father Atkinson: A Strong Candidate for Sainthood

The remans of Upper Darby priest Father Bill Atkinson have been reinterred at Villanova Chapel at Villanova University.

The Communion of Saints is a “Catholic Hall of Fame,” and the late Father Bill Atkinson’s impact on the Catholic Church makes him Babe Ruth, Tom Brady, and Michael Jordan rolled into one, says Father Robert Hagan, prior principal of the Augustinian Province of Saint Thomas of Villanova.

Father Atkinson, an Upper Darby native, is the first quadriplegic to be ordained as a priest and now he’s on a path toward sainthood, writes Michael Bradley for Main Line Today…

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