In the same city where Father Michael McGivney once gathered a small group of parishioners in a church basement to establish a charitable order, what would become the Knights of Columbus, there is now a parish named in his honor.
A priest on the road to sainthood, who has united millions of Catholic men across the world, is drawing faithful together in the town where he first served.
Archbishop Leonard Blair of Hartford chose the new parish name from a list of suggestions that a committee of New Haven parishioners picked after extensive co.