The cause for Fr. Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, has been started, according to Gashwin (currently in formation with the CSP’s) , who quotes from the Postulator of the cause:

Father Isaac Thomas Hecker has begun the canonical journey towards sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.

On Thursday October 26, John Duffy and I met with Cardinal Edward Egan at his residence on Madison Avenue. At this meeting we asked the cardinal who as Archbishop of New York has canonical competency, to open a diocesan inquiry into the sanctity of Father Hecker. Cardinal Egan was not only delighted but enthusiastic about Hecker’s cause and readily agreed to do so.