Passionist

Speaking Monday on “CNN This Morning,” the Rev. Edward L. Beck, a priest of the Passionist order, told co-host Poppy Harlow that Jesus’s life has “parallels to our current world situation right now” that “you can’t make up.”

He still regularly works in Ardoyne in his role as director of the Passionist Peace and Reconciliation Office on the Crumlin Road and has retained his close ties with the local community.

The Passionist religious order in Britain has been working on his sainthood cause for decades, investigating his life and writings.

The Vatican said on Saturday that the pope had approved a decree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of George Spencer, a priest of the Passionist religious order who lived from 1799 to 1864.

Portions of the grounds of the Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center were “marred” by spray paint, according to a Facebook post by the monastery.