since then taylor has been in charge of facilitating oklahoma support for that parish, its parish school, the local hospital and most recently an alcohol abuse treatment center planned for that community. the cause of canonization of father rother was opened formally in september 2007, with taylor heading up the effort as the episcopal delegate for the process. to date he has interviewed 35 of the 112 surviving witnesses to father rother's martyrdom or heroic virtue, 23 of these in guatemala.