Now she has achieved canonization of a more scholarly sort.
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Officially, no date has been set for the canonization ceremony.
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Her canonization will be one of the fastest in modern times.
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Maybe when Trump emerges, he'll announce that Francis promised him canonization.
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With the canonization of Beethoven, music became the vehicle of genius.
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This was Gaga's first Vegas residency, the ultimate distinction of pop canonization.
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It's mostly famous because it's famous; canonization is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Each was healed, providing evidence of the miracles required for her canonization.
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Her canonization didn't occur until three years before Shaw wrote his play.
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With the canonization of minimalism has come a reconsideration of its mythology.
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Canonization itself can get a little complicated, but where it starts is simple.
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Our reporter observed the canonization from Kolkata, India, where her legacy was burnished.
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"This canonization, I don't know what that's all about," he said on Sunday.
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Stone has about the same chance of exoneration as he does of canonization.
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But in 2014, he momentarily left retirement before the canonization of John Paul.
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The result: A no-scope headshot kill, the EvoWar III trophy and instant canonization.
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During the canonization ceremony, Francis highlighted the connections between Romero's theology and his own.
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Another miracle is required for canonization, the formal act of declaring someone a saint.
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The church gave him the title "venerated" in the 1970s, a step toward canonization.
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Death Twitter's canonization of Kobe collided head-on with the #MeToo movement's cultural legacy.
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So it provides them a critical canonization that maybe they've long desired or wanted.
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A second miracle would lead to his canonization, which would make him a saint.
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Just 19 years after her death at age 87, the canonization took place unusually quick.
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He was interviewed in August before leaving for Rome to prepare for the canonization ceremonies.
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If Anna isn't a saint yet, she makes a strong case for her own canonization.
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Oh, and she's about to sing at Mother Teresa's canonization at the Vatican on September 4.
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There are usually two miracles required to establish sainthood — one for beatification and another for canonization.
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The canonization took place at Fátima's main square, which was doused by heavy rains on Friday.
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While the actor has no Twitter account, he has been informed of his recent canonization, internet style.
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This is the first thing that the Church will check before even thinking about moving toward canonization.
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On Sunday morning, Pope Francis officially bestowed that title at her canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
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The canonization was broadcast live on the Vatican's television station and streamed online through a Vatican website.
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The canonization is expected to take place next September, which marks the 19th anniversary of her death.
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The prospect of her canonization means very little to those outside the church, many of whom deride her.
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Romero was considered for canonization decades ago, but his nomination stalled on concerns that he was overly political.
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The canonization ceremony will coincide with a big Vatican meeting on youth that is meant to energize the church.
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For more about Mattie's spirituality and possible cause of canonization, please visit the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Guild at www.Mattie4Sainthood.org.
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It's through these perspectives, and by bringing more people into curation, that we help alleviate that problem of canonization.
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The arrival of Mario Maker heralded a certain canonization of kaizo, even if Nintendo wasn't willing to acknowledge it.
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It's a refreshing break from the slow-motion canonization of chefs so often at the heart of food docs.
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Now back home, she said she hopes to travel to Rome for the canonization of Mother Teresa on Sept. 4.
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First, the Vatican must wait at least five years from a perceived holy person's death to begin the canonization process.
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Canonization, the last step in the process, requires proof of two miracles (or one in the case of a martyr).
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Sebastian Vazhakala, who worked with Mother Teresa, summed up her legacy to The New York Times in advance of the canonization.
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But the arrival of Mario Maker, essentially a Nintendo-blessed canonization of the practice, did not eliminate romhacking from the world.
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Still, the homogeneous group of gatekeepers that came before us still affects so much of what we consider worthy of canonization.
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"It's to do with canonization," said a fine art tutor from Goldsmiths who witnessed the protest but wished to remain anonymous.
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"They traveled all night by bus to participate first in the canonization and then in the lunch," Archbishop Konrad Krajewski told Breitbart.
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Today, she is regarded as the city's most important native, and celebrations for her canonization will be held there for a week.
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Taiwan Vice President Chen Chien-jen is a devout Catholic and visited the Vatican in 2016 for the canonization of Mother Teresa.
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He noted the potential for Berlin's museums to take a leading role in the canonization of artwork in nearby countries such as Poland.
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The process of canonization is often considered to be akin to evolution, whereby the fittest survive, and the cream rises to the top.
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In November, Smithsonian magazine featured a member of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Sister Blandina Segale, whose cause for canonization is pending.
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The case for canonization is usually initiated five years after the candidate's death, but Pope John Paul II waived this rule for Mother Teresa.
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Fame and canonization have defanged these artists' explicit homosexuality and have made it possible to both know and not know them and their work.
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"Chef's Table" continues to be canonization in documentary's clothing, and the new batch of four episodes are about chefs in France — liberté, égalité, hagiography.
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Pope Francis approved Mother Teresa's canonization in December, declaring her responsible for the "miraculous healing" of a Brazilian man with multiple brain abscesses – her second miracle.
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Mother Teresa, the world famous nun needs little introduction, and her canonization on September 4 at the Vatican in Rome, is expected to draw huge crowds.
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Romero's canonization is particularly significant for the people of El Salvador, many of whom revere him politically and spiritually, especially as an icon of the religious left.
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But in Mother Teresa's case, Pope John Paul II allowed the process, called the cause of canonization, to start early — less than two years after her death.
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Of all the figures due for cinematic canonization on the centennial of World War I's conclusion, a dog named Stubby might not seem like the obvious choice.
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ROME — When Stephen K. Bannon was still heading Breitbart News, he went to the Vatican to cover the canonization of John Paul II and make some friends.
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The Pope addressed the thronging crowd that gathered in St. Peter's Square, at the heart of Vatican City, to bear witness as he delivered the formula of canonization.
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This shift marks an important difference between Liese's editorial approach from that taken in Theories and Documents, which was not reliant on personal preference, but rather on canonization.
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I can't help but see them in a sort of religious context, so my ideas for them gravitate around prayer books, iconography, and their canonization within hip-hop.
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Over hundreds of hours in the Vatican archives, I examined the files of more than 1,400 miracle investigations — at least one from every canonization between 1588 and 1999.
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Cardinal Jose Gregorio Rosa Chavez of El Salvador and other bishops from the country had asked the pope in a letter to celebrate the canonization in El Salvador.
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Perhaps the director, who calls the Stooges "the greatest rock 'n' roll band ever," worried that hair-raising tales of past excesses would undermine this exercise in canonization.
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The Church opened the way for Mother Teresa's canonization last year after declaring the recovery of Brazilian Marcilio Haddad Andrino from a life-threatening brain infection a miracle.
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"The process of beatification and canonization focuses only on where the soul of a person is, not on where an individual&aposs mortal remains might be," trustees said Monday.
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The second miracle, required for Newman's canonization, involved a woman in the United States whom the Church said overcame a life-threatening illness while pregnant after praying to him.
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Romero is El Salvador's first saint, and thousands of Salvadorans gathered at that country's cathedral in the middle of the night to watch the Vatican's canonization ceremony streamed live.
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While General Lee is a complicated figure who initially argued against secession, I now understand that his canonization is the rhetoric of the Lost Cause — hook, line and sinker.
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John Paul II, who is now also a saint, went against protocol when he allowed the canonization process to begin two years after her death, not the customary five.
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His image consecrates the benedict, who was born to African slaves before his eventual beatification by Pope Benedict XIV in 1743 and canonization in 1807 by Pope Pius VII.
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Cultural canonization — the social construction of immortality — is "meant to be a suggestive concept," write Marijan Dovic and Jon Karl Helgason in their new study, National Poets, Cultural Saints.
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And the crowds of believers and former followers who gather to witness her canonization mass on Sunday will recognize a lifetime of service dedicated to the poor and forgotten. Rev.
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The case for canonization is usually initiated five years after the candidate's death, but Pope John Paul II waived this for Teresa, putting her on a fast track to sainthood.
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Pope Francis celebrated the canonization of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun on Sunday by inviting 1,500 homeless people from around Italy to lunch in the Vatican after the ceremony.
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Now the scandal has even some of John Paul's staunchest fans questioning the wisdom of his canonization in 2014, and it bedeviled Pope Benedict up to his stunning 2013 resignation.
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Extravagantly baroque in their camera placement, perversely literary in their references, at once droll and tedious, these surrealist shaggy dog tales don't lend themselves to easy synopses or individual canonization.
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The case for canonization is usually initiated five years after the candidate's death, but Pope John Paul II waived this for Teresa, putting her on a fast track to sainthood.
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The show moves in reverse chronology, and in some ways the film does, too, hagiography and canonization in one, the flop that became beloved becomes the movie about the flop.
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Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who spent much of her life giving aid to India's poor, was declared a saint on Sunday in a canonization Mass led by Pope Francis.
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As the canonization approaches, Dr. Chatterjee hopes to renew a dialogue about her legacy in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, where she began her services with the "poorest of the poor" in 1950.
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The lawsuit includes a letter from Cardinal Dolan's predecessor, Cardinal Edward M. Egan, to Bishop Jenky in 2002 in which he called Peoria the "ideal" diocese to initiate the canonization process.
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I'm apprehensive about the limitations inherent in canonization, mainly canon's inadequate literary representation of difference as tokenism, and the prohibitive inaccessibility for those who can't afford education at the highest levels.
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"He's going to get the ideological canonization," said Christopher K. Johnson, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
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And yet her work isn't widely known—a fact that speaks to the ways in which the very overlapping oppressions that she fought against likely affected the canonization of her work.
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I'd like to complain that the canon exists, and that it inspires a rather dreary stance, the stance of the rock hero, that looks upon canonization as something to aspire to.
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How canonization works has, understandably, gone through a few changes since the early days of the Church, but the rigor with which it's carried out has always been central to the process.
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"Serra's establishment of the mission system is a central part of California history, and his life's work led to his canonization by the Roman Catholic Church in 2015," the university's statement reads.
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" The canonization was a highlight of the Jubilee year, which the pope had proclaimed to celebrate the theme of mercy, and on Sunday he called Mother Teresa a "tireless worker of mercy.
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Last year, for example, there was the Senate candidate caught on video making a "whooping" gesture in reference to an American Indian, and then there was the pope's canonization of the Rev.
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And if Ortiz goes out a winner, the Red Sox will not have to bother retiring his jersey, because the writers and fans in Boston will already be looking into canonization procedures.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, a crowd of 120,000 gathered in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to celebrate the canonization of Saint Teresa of Kolkata, as she will now be known.
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The conservative Opus Dei group was accused of using its considerable financial clout to push for the canonization of its founder, Father Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, who was declared a saint in 2002.
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"We are blessed with this canonization because we know mother is in heaven and she will pray for us and she will bless us," said Sister Laisa, assistant superior general of the MoC.
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Hundreds of thousands are expected to gather in Rome on Sunday for a canonization service led by Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, in front of St Peter's Basilica.
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"The homogeneous group of gatekeepers that came before us still affects so much of what we consider worthy of canonization," writes Kyle Buchanan, a New York Times culture reporter and awards season columnist.
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When NPR asked Newsom for comment about the meaning of this single, she wrote, "Sapokanikan" is a ragtimey encomium to the forces of remembrance, forgetting, accretion, concealment, amendment, erasure, distortion, canonization, obsolescence, and immortality.
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We should not overstate the significance of Francis's choice to start the canonization process for these particular saints — after all, he's canonized 892, plenty of whom don't have strong symbolic importance for his papacy.
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For those who play the insider game, Mr. Becerra was part of a three-person presidential delegation to the Vatican for the canonization Mass for Popes John XXIII and John Paul II in 2014.
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To transition into the next beat of the piece, it was crucial to bring "Lemonade" and "Daughters of the Dust" back in again, to re-emphasize how they fit into the parameters for canonization.
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Seen in those terms, "Tina" — which has a book by the American playwright Katori Hall, with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins — is an act of canonization for its sorely tried but ultimately transcendent star.
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The pope on Thursday also signed a decree approving the canonization of "Cristóbal, Antonio and Juan, adolescent martyrs, killed in hatred of the faith in Mexico in 1529," the Vatican said in a statement.
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Long-running series like "Treme" and "The Deuce," and mini-series like "Generation Kill" and "Show Me a Hero" have followed roughly the same pattern: high acclaim, modest viewership, likely canonization down the line.
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The next step toward canonization, which will get underway now that the legal battle is over, requires the Vatican to certify that Archbishop Sheen is responsible for at least one miracle since his death.
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While Romero's canonization comes at a symbolically important time as Francis navigates the future direction of his embattled papacy, it's actually the culmination of a much longer process that Francis initiated shortly after becoming pope.
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Still, it's possible to see in the canonization of both Romero and Paul VI a reaffirmation of Francis's core values, and a powerful expression of how he sees the legacy of his papacy going forward.
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But Pope John Paul II, who met her often, had no doubt about her eligibility for sainthood, and put her on the route to canonization two years after her death instead of the usual five.
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Pope Francis set the canonization date Tuesday, paving the way for the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor to become the centerpiece of his yearlong focus on the Catholic Church's merciful side.
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In fact, in my work I've critiqued it as being this sort of canonization of a certain set of cultural expressions, often by white gay men, that then stands in for all of gay culture.
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KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - On the eve of her canonization as a Roman Catholic saint, and 33 years after her death, the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta is going strong - even without her charismatic leadership.
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But, because Turner's canonization has proceeded within the limits of commercial entertainment, her life often seems at risk of being objectified in the way that can happen with a song, or a scene from a blockbuster.
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But think positive: Between the F.B.I.'s 11-month email investigation and the eight congressional Benghazi inquiries, Clinton has now probably been examined more thoroughly than any candidate not up for canonization in the Catholic Church.
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The popular Roman Catholic saint known as Padre Pio has gained rock star appeal since his death in 1968 and his canonization in 2002, so perhaps it is fitting that he is on a national tour.
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The canonization, said Father Vazhakala, who founded the Lay Missionaries of Charity, a movement open to practicing Catholics who pledge to give service to the poorest of the poor, will offer a fresh pulpit for her works.
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Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had made clear from the start of his papacy, in 2013, that he would champion the canonization cause of Archbishop Romero, who will now be known as Saint Óscar Romero.
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Father Vitor Coutinho, deputy head of the sanctuary of Fatima, said the pope was showing the importance of Fatima to the church by carrying out the canonization there rather than in Rome, where they are usually done.
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So when Pope Francis tweeted "Thanks to the Lord for our new #Saints" -- referring to a quintuple canonization over the weekend -- sports fans were delighted to note that the hashtag is already taken by the New Orleans Saints.
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There are also mentions made of Lenny's one-time girlfriend, and a young woman, Juana Fernandez, in South America who is credited with healing sick children through her stories, so she's being put up for consideration for canonization.
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And while the archive is a further step in the canonization of Mr. Dylan, now 21975, as not just a musical icon but also an American literary giant, the documents are tantalizing in what they do not reveal.
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Officials in Rome are reviewing at least one potential miracle attributed to Tolton's intercession, according to the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, which has been working on the priest's cause of canonization with the Archdiocese of Chicago since 2003.
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Earlier this decade, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band opposed the Catholic Church's canonization in 2015 of Junipero Serra, an evangelist who oversaw and founded Catholic missions in Spanish America, including in the current state of California, in the 1700s.
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Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said Indians felt "proud" about the canonization, the head of a Hindu grassroots movement that supports his government provoked controversy last year by accusing Mother Teresa of seeking to convert people to Christianity.
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The archbishop's canonization was opposed by conservative leaders at the Vatican for years because of his association with leftist views, but Pope Francis ratified his martyrdom in 2015, paving the way for Archbishop Romero to be made a saint.
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ROME — Pope Francis has paved the way for the canonization of Pope Paul VI, who led the Roman Catholic Church through turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, and the slain Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, the Vatican announced on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic pilgrims from around the world descended on Fátima, Portugal, this weekend to attend the canonization ceremony of two shepherd children who said they witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary a century ago.
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Up to a million people are expected to attend the canonization mass on Saturday at the shrine for the children, who the Vatican believes received messages from the Madonna that have become known as the three secrets of Fatima.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death.
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Underscoring Newman's luminary status in Christianity today, Prince Charles, who will become head of the Church of England when he becomes king, attended the canonization Mass in St. Peter's Square and said it was a cause for celebration by all Britons.
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Members of the Missionaries of Charity family — both lay and religious — have been descending on Rome for Sunday's canonization, and a week of events has been organized, from a musical based on Mother Teresa's life to Masses venerating her relics.
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ESPN, desperate for a story line this weekend, tried to make a hero of Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski for guiding these luminaries to a gold medal (when sportswriters start calling coaches "Michael William Krzyzewski," you know canonization is near at hand).
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Because the state — or "the commonwealth," as Virginia's political leaders dutifully call it — is now so sharply divided, few were much surprised when Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Northam staked out their positions on the state's civic canonization of the Confederacy.
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"It's really unique to have a centenary, canonization and the pope all at the same time, so I think some people got scared about coming and not even being able to enter Fátima," said José Ferreira, a priest visiting from Lisbon.
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"Father Tolton leaves us a shining example of what Christian action is all about, what patient suffering is all about in face of life's incongruities," said Bishop Joseph Perry of the Archdiocese of Chicago and a chief advocate of Tolton's cause for canonization.
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When Mr. Bloom died in October, Joe Karaganis and David McClure of the nonprofit research organization Open Syllabus wondered, in an Op-Ed in The Times, whether he or Toni Morrison, a proponent of more inclusive canonization, won the literary canon wars.
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That name dates back to the 17th century, when the Roman Catholic Church created an office popularly known as the advocatus diaboli — a person tasked with making the case against the canonization of new saints, scrutinizing every report of their miracles and virtue.
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Because Romero's politics have long been controversial — critics have denigrated him as a dangerous Marxist — his canonization is especially significant as Francis faces internal, highly politicized Vatican challenges to his papacy in the aftermath of the recent resurgence of the clerical sex abuse crisis.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be made a saint in a ceremony at the Vatican on October 14, the Church said on Saturday, a decision that will disappoint some in Latin America who had hoped the canonization could take place there.
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But Mother Teresa had the support of the three popes who oversaw her canonization process, from Pope John Paul II, who believed in her holiness so strongly that he expedited the sainthood process, to Pope Francis, who acknowledged the final miracle that made her eligible for sainthood.
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As pilgrims from across the world gathered at the Vatican along with delegations from more than a dozen governments, the canonization was also celebrated in Skopje, the capital of modern Macedonia where Mother Teresa was born of Albanian parents in 1910 and became a nun aged 16.
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An article on Friday about efforts by the family of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to move his body to Illinois as part of the drive toward his canonization misstated the academic rank of Matthew Sutton, who spoke about the importance of where saints' remains are kept.
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It was no passing phase and I have integrated both my ethnicity and my intellectual leanings into my faith first by analyzing the canonization of the Lily of the Mohawks, Kateri Tekakwitha, and then by editing, writing, illustrating, publishing, and distributing a magazine of Catholic inquiry called Zeal.
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Such has been the fascination with all things Newman among British Christians leading up to the canonization that Father Ignatius Harrison, provost of the Birmingham Oratory that Newman founded in 1848, speculated that the new saint would have been a "remainer" in the Brexit debate because he believed in unity.
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The pope also approved the canonization of four other saints: Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, born Jan Papczynski, of Poland; Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad, the first Swedish saint in more than 600 years; José Gabriel del Rosario, from Argentina, known as the "gaucho priest"; and José Luis Sánchez del Río of Mexico.
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"They say he would lose a half liter of blood each day," said Luciano Lamonarca, who as president of the Saint Pio Foundation in New York City helped organize the relics tour to honor the 130th anniversary of Padre Pio's birth in southern Italy and the 15th anniversary of his canonization.
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In the 1950s and early 1960s, between the waning of Abstract Expressionism and the canonization of Pop Art and Minimalism, younger artists decided to stop waiting for attention from uptown galleries and began opening artist-run cooperatives and alternative spaces downtown, on or near East 10th Street in the East Village.
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Aja Romano: I'd actually argue that neither the first hour nor the second hour of A Star Is Born is great, and we should all, perhaps, take a step back and rethink our continued valorization and canonization of this narrative that unfailingly seems to turn a woman's success into a man's tragedy.
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Famed atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who was invited to be part of the investigation regarding her suitability for sainthood, wrote an essay during the beginning steps of her canonization process in 2003 that called Mother Teresa "a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud" for her approach to the care of the poor.
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KOLKATA, India — When Mother Teresa's canonization took place on Sunday, a battered-looking audience gathered in front of a screen some 4,500 miles east of St. Peter's Square: men with caved-in chests, weeping sores wrapped in gauze, extremities missing entirely, legs so thin you could encircle them with a finger and thumb.
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The matter has grown in urgency in recent years as the archbishop, who now bears the title of "venerable" from the Vatican, has come under serious consideration for canonization — which would make him the first American-born male saint — both for his good works during his life, and for possible miracles since his death.
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Since canonization in 1920, Joan, one of France's patron saints, has been played by some of film's greatest icons (Maria Falconetti, Ingrid Bergman) as well as trendy Hollywood starlets (Milla Jovovich, Leelee Sobieski), but in each iteration it's the spectacle of her martyrdom that dominates the story, not the humble nature of her origins.
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After he was selected to join a presidential delegation to the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, Becerra said, "It's a great day to be a Catholic" and gave moving and thoughtful interviews about how his faith shapes his life and work and why he feels so inspired by Francis.
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In "Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty" (Scribner, $27.99), Kate Hennessy, Ms. Day's granddaughter, has written an intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who helped found The Catholic Worker in 1933, edited the radical newspaper until her death in 1980 and is now being considered for canonization.
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The martyred Oscar Romero, former archbishop of San Salvador, was made a saint on Sunday morning, alongside six other canonized church figures, including Pope Paul VI. The canonization of Romero — whose Latin American origins and commitment to social justice mirror that of the current pontiff, Pope Francis — is a powerfully symbolic reaffirmation of Francis's own long-held dedication to eradicating wealth inequality.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This spring, Hyperallergic Weekend's John Yau (poet/critic/curator) joined the pioneering artist and founder of Franklin Furnace, Martha Wilson, and acclaimed painter and collagist, William Villalongo, to talk about the work of Jasper Johns on the occasion of his recently published five-volume catalogue raisonné and, more generally, the workings of artistic canonization today.
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He calls Britain a "community of communities" and pointed out to his guests on Thursday that he has recently traveled to the Vatican for the Canonization of St. John Henry Newman to celebrate the contribution Catholics make to the country, while in India recently he visited the Bangla Sahib Gurdwara to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism.
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France, Germany and the Soviet Union are all associated with pioneering schools of cinema, but this retrospective suggests that Czechoslovakia nurtured some of Europe's most innovative filmmaking before World War II. The lineup makes a case for the canonization of the auteur Gustav Machaty, perhaps best known for his early sound feature "From Saturday to Sunday" (April 14-15 and 22) and for "Ecstasy" (April 14 and 20), scandalous for footage of a skinny-dipping Hedy Lamarr.
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