Catholics believe that spiritual heroes from the past can help us now if we pray to them. I first learned of Mother Lange as a student for the priesthood at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. For 15 years I have prayed daily to Mother Lange to help me produce my film.
Given the severity of my 13 year battle with insanity such a production would seem impossible.
Yet the urgency of the heroin crisis, my 40 years’ work in the field, and the intercession of Mother Lange, make such an event achievable.
Mother Lange needs one miracle to qualify for canonization by the Catholic Church. I believe
Hollywood production of my action-adventure film qualifies as that miracle.
She became the first African-American nun in the United States in 1829. Through her organizations
the power of her witness still shines bright nearly 200 years later. The Catholic Church is the final arbiter.
Enclosed is the biography I wrote of Mother Lange in the APOSTOLATE of the Little Flower Magazine in the winter of 2001.
