Father John G. Horgan was a priest of the Archdiocese of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. He was the son of John and Olive Horgan, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts. John graduated from Harvard, as well as the Angelicum in Rome, before being ordained by St. John Paul II on May 25, 1986. He has lectured and consulted on questions of moral theology and healthcare ethics in Canada and the United States.
Father has had a life-long interest in the Angels and Saints and was credentialed through the Vatican's special training course for those involved in the process of "saint-making" in 1997. He has served as a vice-postulator for the cause of Blessed Marie of Jesus Deluil-Martiny and has advised on several other causes. He also wrote a book: His Angels at Our Side: Understanding Their Power in Our Souls and the World.
Father John was involved with EWTN, the Eternal Word Global Television Network, since the early 1990s; he made several appearances with Mother Angelica and has filmed two television series.
Father Horgan was a consultant for the 2005 movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a movie loosely based on an actual case in Germany. Many of his TV appearances are available on YouTube.
From the 1990s Father Horgan was a familiar face and voice of the Archdiocese of Vancouver internationally after beginning an association with EWTN, the Eternal Word Global Television Network. He made many EWTN appearances on radio and TV and appeared several times with EWTN founder Mother Angelica. He had two television series and hosted the series Angels of God, based on his 2018 book His Angels at Our Side: Understanding Their Power In Our Souls and the World. He went to Hanceville, Ala., to concelebrate Mother Angelica's funeral Mass in 2016 and his voice could be heard on EWTN reading the psalms and Scripture verses each day.
A devotee of Marie Rose Ferron, a stigmatic who died in Woonsocket, RI in 1936 at the age of 33.