So Mother Teresa finally gets there after lots of hurdles. I bet Christopher Hitchens is rolling in his grave.
The Catholic Church has tightened up its rules so canonization is not so easy anymore. Just a well I suppose because so many saints have been made over the years Heaven must be getting crowded with them.
For those that don't know there are two main requirements for getting the nod and becoming a saint:
1.The candidate needs to be a martyr or have demonstrated a life of "heroic virtue" — attributes like faith, hope, love, courage, etc.
2. Following the death of the candidate, miracles must be attributed to them — an example would be someone being healed after praying to the candidate, or having a vision of them, or using prayer beads that had belonged to them.
Interesting that Pope John Paul, who had a flair for creating saints and set records in creating them, wanted to dispense with the miracle condition as it was hard to find them. Miracles are not so common these days, not like in the past when flying monks were almost commonplace.
The Catholic Church has tightened up its rules so canonization is not so easy anymore. Just a well I suppose because so many saints have been made over the years Heaven must be getting crowded with them.
For those that don't know there are two main requirements for getting the nod and becoming a saint:
1.The candidate needs to be a martyr or have demonstrated a life of "heroic virtue" — attributes like faith, hope, love, courage, etc.
2. Following the death of the candidate, miracles must be attributed to them — an example would be someone being healed after praying to the candidate, or having a vision of them, or using prayer beads that had belonged to them.
Interesting that Pope John Paul, who had a flair for creating saints and set records in creating them, wanted to dispense with the miracle condition as it was hard to find them. Miracles are not so common these days, not like in the past when flying monks were almost commonplace.
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