Benedict XVI cleared the path to Archbishop Romero's sainthood shortly before resigning in 2013, and Francis fast-tracked his conversion to sainthood, beatifying him in 2015 as a martyr.
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By what popular name was she known before her sainthood?
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Despite her reputation, some doubt Mother Teresa's suitability for sainthood.
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Doyle and Massey aren't interested in sainthood, though, or at
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Tramphood is pretty much sainthood, compared to all the rest.
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But the path to sainthood is often more bureaucratic than beatific.
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Newspaper editorials "practically promoted Rockne into secular sainthood," Ray Robinson wrote.
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Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood for Michael Jordan.
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Separately, Augustine Tolton took the first step toward sainthood this week.
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She was beatified in 1989, putting her one step away from sainthood.
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The move comes after the Vatican said last month it would elevate another martyred prelate to sainthood, Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, whose recognition as a martyr opened the pathway to sainthood for other slain Latin American bishops.
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Usually a miracle is needed for a candidate for sainthood to be beatified.
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Leszczyńska died in 1974 and was nominated for sainthood in the Catholic Church.
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Patrick Chappatte Younger generations assess Mother Teresa's sainthood 19 years after her death.
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Is that kind of spiritual suffering a prerequisite for sainthood, or an obstacle?
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Pope Francis put Father Tolton on the path to sainthood Wednesday when he issued a decree "declaring the heroic virtues" of the priest, who was the only American on the list, which contained the names of eight candidates for sainthood.
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In a strange way, this might be empowering Roth or elevating him to sainthood.
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In 2000, the Martos were beatified — the final step before sainthood — by John Paul.
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But as wrangling over the body intensified, the Peoria diocese paused on pursuing sainthood.
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In another indication that Francis believes Hamel is already on the way to sainthood, the archbishop of Rouen, Dominique Lebrun, told reporters afterwards that the pope had told him Hamel should be "venerated," an honor usually bestowed only after a sainthood procedure begins.
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The decision to open the archives could eventually speed up the sainthood process for Pius.
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A deft hand at grotesque caricature, Chick was more successful at drawing sin than sainthood.
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It's not quite sainthood, but it's one of the better honors this side of heaven.
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As for the sainthood test, that one is way above either of our pay grades.
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Sainthood usually requires that two miracles be identified, something that can take several more years.
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In essence we, the living, deal with our guilt by conferring sainthood upon the dead.
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We didn't just dream big; we ascended into the realm of fantasy and visible sainthood.
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What were some ways in which his humanity, rather than his secular sainthood, were evident?
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In 2012, Archbishop Sheen was named "venerable" by the Vatican, the first step toward sainthood.
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In December, a second miracle was attributed to the new saint, making her eligible for sainthood.
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You know, Mariano, he was kind of at that sainthood level, like Derek, transcendent of baseball.
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There are usually two miracles required to establish sainthood — one for beatification and another for canonization.
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This year, the Greek Catholic bishops were declared martyrs, putting them on the path to sainthood.
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The diocese said it and the Archdiocese of Chicago had spent 16 years advocating his sainthood.
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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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Human angel Ryan Gosling has done yet another good deed, bringing him ever closer to achieving sainthood.
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For the sainthood cause to move forward, the Church would have to attribute a miracle to Talbot.
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As to sainthood, let history judge rather than us making it a proxy for a political response.
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Beyond the propaganda of Fidel Castro's villainy or sainthood, these are the scars of the Cuban revolution.
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So go three popular sexist tropes, with mothers — stereotypically sexless figures — usually falling into martyrdom or sainthood.
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All Saints Day recognizes those whose have attained heaven, but their sainthood is known only to God.
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Because as everyone knows, the shortest route to sainthood is giving out shiny new small kitchen appliances.
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Pope Francis approved miracles attributed to Romero and Paul VI earlier this year, paving the way to sainthood.
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Romero was beatified by Pope Francis in 2015, which is one step before sainthood in the Catholic Church.
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The title "Almost Holy" notwithstanding, the director, Steve Hoover, barely stops short of nominating his subject for sainthood.
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His path to sainthood stalled under two previous popes, reflecting concerns by some that he was overly political.
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Until now the procedure which could lead to sainthood — known as a "cause" — was limited to three categories.
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Kolbe's sainthood cause began in 1955 under the previous rules and he was made a saint in 1982.
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It extolled whiteness as a kind of sainthood and anti-whiteness as a stain on the American republic.
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An adult man on the autism spectrum is an adult man; the spectrum isn't a certificate of sainthood.
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Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.
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Joan Sheen Cunningham, 90, believes moving her uncle&aposs remains to Peoria, Illinois, will improve his cause for sainthood.
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Next year he will be probably be raised up to full sainthood and the rejoicing will be even greater.
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Brian Kolodiejchuk, the postulator — or main promoter — of her case for sainthood, said during an interview in the home.
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As good as many of the recommendations are, they sound like requirements for sainthood in a screen-dominated world.
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She pursues sainthood mostly for the fame it will bring her, not out of a pure sense of devotion.
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The status allows Angelelli to be beatified — the first step toward sainthood — without having a miracle attributed to his intercession.
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In "Vivre Sa Vie," Ms. Karina played a desultory beauty who drifts into streetwalking on the way to cinematic sainthood.
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On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Catholics are expected as Pope Francis leads a service elevating Mother Teresa to sainthood.
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I feel as though I'm in a bizarre French New Wave film, with the central character a study in sainthood.
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And how could I have missed understanding that Thoreau's love of nature was not Emersonian; it was, minus sainthood, Franciscan.
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Pope Francis has introduced a new path to Catholic sainthood — one that recognizes those who perform extraordinary acts of self-sacrifice.
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Rating: When you achieve SVW sainthood you are free of its rating system to spend these finite months as you please.
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Since Russell's death 15 years ago, a spate of reissues and compilations has elevated him from obscurity to latter-day sainthood.
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He was never officially canonized by Rome as a saint, although his local fans did elect him to sainthood by acclamation.
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Bernard J. Quinn, a priest who established the first parish for African-Americans in Brooklyn, is one step closer to sainthood.
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Salvadoran Cardinal Jose Gregorio Rosa said Romero's sainthood will serve as an example for religious leaders as well as the faithful.
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The other figures included Figari's number two, Germán Doig, who died in 2001 and who Sodalicio had once proposed for sainthood.
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But one may also reply: shouldn&apost we expect candidates for sainthood to be larger than the routine thinking of their times?
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Not compared to these campaigns Asked about elevating Trump to sainthood, Knight says that's what he thinks of the real-estate mogul.
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But no major ceremony is planned to mark the path to sainthood for the two miracles of healing attributed to Mother Teresa.
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Michael McGivney, who created the Knights of Columbus fraternal Catholic group in 1882 and is being considered for sainthood by the Vatican.
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But, early on, I worried that Taylor might curdle into sainthood, becoming a figure of alien purity, as representational pioneers often do.
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Soon after she died in 229 at age 22007, he was made the postulator — the main promoter of her case for sainthood.
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"Therefore he is confirming that a life lived in the light of the spirituality of Fatima can lead to sainthood," Coutinho said.
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It seems clear that we can't expect sainthood — or billionaires will avoid the gauntlet of public criticism by avoiding donating at all.
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Opinion To hear the Christian right tell it, President Trump should be a candidate for sainthood — that is, if evangelicals believed in saints.
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We definitely want to hear more about that, so hopefully as the action shifts to Tonino we'll dig into Lenny's sainthood a little more.
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Each year President Hamilton would have given a fervent speech at a national convention in Washington virtually guaranteeing sainthood to those who backed him.
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One is Latin America, where a Catholic prelate, murdered at the altar in El Salvador in 1980, may soon be elevated to full sainthood.
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After beatification, which for Mother Teresa was in 2003, a second miracle is required in order for the cause to move on to sainthood.
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On Thursday, Francis also approved a step toward sainthood for Pope John Paul I, who died in 1978 only 33 days into his papacy.
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Jesuits, Franciscans, Benedictines, Augustinians: the names are iconic, their founders immortalized by sainthood, their members often bound together by vows of poverty and obedience.
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In other words, Tebow's first official day of pro baseball brought him one step closer to sainthood, but not necessarily closer to the big leagues.
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There are over 10,000 saints in the church, and these figures acquire sainthood through a process that has been in use since the 10th century.
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The Associated Press Reports that on Tuesday, the pope announced in an official letter that the fourth path to sainthood involves five main criteria: 1.
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But that doesn't stop Deepwater Horizon from playing things as big as it possibly can, whether it's Vidrine's villainy or Mr. Jimmy's aw-shucks sainthood.
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She believes that he if he knew in life that he would be considered for sainthood, he would have wanted to be interred in Peoria.
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Archbishop Romero's path to sainthood was strewn with obstacles, including strong opposition from some in the church to what were perceived as his political motivations.
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The Vatican said Francis approved a decree recognizing Tolton's "heroic virtues," an early step in the sainthood process, after a five-year investigation in Chicago.
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Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky has pledged to work for Sheen&aposs sainthood and place his remains at St. Mary&aposs Cathedral in the western Illinois city.
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Pope Francis conferred sainthood on Óscar Romero, an archbishop who was murdered in 1980 while saying mass by an army-backed death squad in El Salvador.
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Of course, John Paul II — his elevation to sainthood notwithstanding — will be remembered for having a blind spot when it came to the sex abuse crisis.
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To the joy of Dominicans and many Florentines, Pope Francis conferred the title "venerable" on La Pira in July, a step on the path to sainthood.
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In 2009, former Pope Benedict angered Jews when he approved a decree recognizing Pius's "heroic virtues", an initial step toward the sainthood Pius' defenders say he deserves.
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The shoes, the clothes, the photographs—they're fascinating relics of a woman who attained secular sainthood, but they cannot but pale in comparison with O'Keeffe's actual miracles.
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Workouts and character evaluations notwithstanding, many players drafted lower (Stephen Curry went seventh in 2009) have turned out better than those erroneously projected for shoe company sainthood.
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In Brazil, a postulator I knew on another sainthood cause received the news that the miracle case he had put forth was rejected, so it's not automatic.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will elevate to sainthood martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero alongside Pope Paul VI in a ceremony on Oct. 14.
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That's why we celebrate Valentine's Day when we do — because that was the day this Roman priest was violently put to death (and he was eventually given sainthood).
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It remained there peacefully until Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, the head of the Diocese of Peoria, began investigating the possible sainthood of Archbishop Sheen in the early 2000s.
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"What a source of great pride to have the nation's first black priest and someone who is on his way to sainthood, live and minister in our diocese."
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The Vatican said the miracle cementing his sainthood was the 2015 survival of Cecilia Flores, whose husband prayed to Romero when she was close to death in pregnancy.
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In an essay on Gandhi, George Orwell argued that the essence of being human is in the imperfect flux of life, not in the single-minded purity of sainthood.
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The BBC reported that the library had kept the letters out of public view, partly because of John Paul's path to sainthood, which was fast-tracked by the church.
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Combine that with a dead best friend from your first band who has been elevated to sainthood, it would be entirely understandable to retreat to rote answers and nostalgia.
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Such control over her image may mean we get less frequent peeks of her looks, but it also gives us perfection with every appearance — something formerly reserved for sainthood.
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It was and in 1975, Pope Paul issued a decree recognizing Talbot's "heroic virtues," giving him the title "venerable," one of the early steps that can lead to sainthood.
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He gave thanks for the miracles that will bring sainthood to Mother Teresa and said that, in Kolkata, she "had chosen the right place for her work and charity".
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The demand to put the slain French priest on the fast track for sainthood was made by a prominent Italian politician, Roberto Maroni, the president of the Lombardy region.
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But Gold Star mothers have a unique place in American history because membership comes at such an unimaginably painful price; being a Gold Star mother is akin to sainthood.
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"There have been cases in which unknowns are granted the status of sainthood and their burial places declared shrines, merely for the purpose of donation collection," Mr. Sufi said.
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The Martin Luther encountered in this biography is a hero, first and foremost, and also something of a saint — despite the fact that Luther rejected traditional concepts of sainthood.
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But for my tribe at least, the process to receive a spirit animal is a hard, personal journey, not unlike receiving a military honor or a Catholic patron sainthood.
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His closest living relative, Joan Sheen Cunningham, sued in 2016 to have her uncle's remains moved to Peoria, with the hope that it would speed his cause to sainthood.
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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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Those candidates for sainthood whose causes will in future start under the new category of offering their own life would still have to have two miracles attributed to their intercession.
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Pope Francis has approved sainthood for the Roman Catholic nun known as the "saint of the gutters," who founded a religious order dedicated to assisting the poorest of the poor.
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The revival of The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, based on The Book of Margery Kemp, tells the story of a fiercely independent medieval woman and her contradictory path to sainthood.
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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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Three decades later, she was called as a witness to testify on the virtues of John Paul II, the first step toward the sainthood that the church acknowledged in 2014.
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The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during their lives that they are now believed to be with God and can intercede with him to perform miracles.
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The logistics of the St. Pablo Tour may seem radical at first, but the floating stage is an appropriate choice: It elevates him, a fellow sinner, to the level of sainthood.
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In 2012, former Pope Benedict decreed that Puglisi died as a martyr in "hatred of the faith," and ordered that he be beatified, the last step before sainthood in the Church.
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Jenky said in a statement that the Vatican postponed the beatification, which would have put Sheen one step closer to sainthood, after "a few" American bishops had "asked for further consideration".
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Kolodiejchuk said the cost of Mother Teresa's sainthood cause - gathering documentation, interviewing witness, paying lawyers - came to less than $100,000 - very low compared to the cost of some canonizations in the past.
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Kolodiejchuk said the cost of Mother Teresa's sainthood cause - gathering documentation, interviewing witness, paying lawyers - came to less than $100,000 - very low compared to the cost of some canonisations in the past.
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Tim Tebow is one million steps closer to sainthood ... 'cause his celebrity golf tourney this weekend raised 7 FIGURES that will all go toward kids charities connected to the ex-NFL star.
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In order to be considered for sainthood, you must have died at least five years ago and either have a claim to martyrdom (like Saint Joan of Arc) or have performed a miracle.
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For the next dozen years, the band delivered records at a respectable pace of once every three or so years — The Con (163), Sainthood (216), Heartthrob (217), and Love You to Death (217).
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The Church defines as saints those believed to have led such holy lives they are now in Heaven and can intercede with God to perform miracles - two of which are needed to confer sainthood.
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The Catholic Church posthumously confers beatification, and later sainthood, on people considered so holy during their lives that they are now believed to be with God and can intercede with him to perform miracles.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of U.S. Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and a pioneer in using media for religious purposes, is one step closer to sainthood.
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In 2002, the Vatican ruled that prayers to Mother Teresa had brought about an Indian woman's miraculous cure from stomach cancer, providing the first of the two miracles Catholic doctrine requires before conferring sainthood.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday put Father Augustine Tolton, the first African-American Catholic priest who started life as a slave in the 19th century U.S. South, on the path to sainthood.
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Catholic scholars later wrote to Benedict urging him to freeze the sainthood cause, saying that exhaustive study of Pius' actions during the Holocaust had to come first, otherwise Jewish-Catholic relations could be greatly harmed.
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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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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis approved sainthood on Tuesday for Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun known as the "saint of the gutters" who founded a religious order dedicated to assisting the poorest of the poor.
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"Pope Francis is incredibly close to my heart; he was the one who elevated our John Paul II to sainthood," said Dorota Wisniowska, 24, who came to Krakow from Wloclawek, a town in central Poland.
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Villa is practically up for sainthood since last weekend, when a passer-by posted a photo of him delivering food to a homeless man and his son outside a Starbucks when N.Y.C.F.C. was in Portland, Ore.
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Dr. Virchow would later achieve scientific sainthood for disposing of Hippocrates' idea that humors caused disease, solidifying the idea that cells were the basis of biology and coining terms like leukemia, spina bifida, thrombosis and embolism.
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Gene Seymour: Actress Doris Day was much more than America's virgin Sam Vinograd: Giuliani sets a new low bar with his Ukraine trip Jeni Stepanek: Will this 13-year-old child-poet be considered for possible sainthood?
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But his burial in a crypt at the cathedral after his death a few months later at age 84 has been at the center of a dispute that has held up his 14-year journey toward sainthood.
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NBC News reports that the decision to canonize the nun, famed for working with the poor in India, comes after Pope Francis approved a decree determining that she had performed the two miracles required for full sainthood.
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My mother and her family, who emigrated from the Bahamas to Staten Island, even lived for a time on a farm run by Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement and a candidate for sainthood.
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My mother and her family, who emigrated from the Bahamas to Staten Island, even lived for a time on a farm run by Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement and a candidate for sainthood.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday the French priest knifed to death at his altar by Islamist militants in July was a martyr, and indicated that Father Jacques Hamel was already on the road to sainthood.
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In a letter to top Vatican officials released Wednesday, the American Jewish Committee said it was "profoundly" concerned that Pope Francis had approved a decree recognizing Hlond&aposs "heroic virtues," the first main step in the sainthood process.
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The pope cleared the way for sainthood in December by approving a second miracle attributed to her, which involved the healing of a Brazilian man who had suffered a viral brain infection that left him in a coma.
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In his prepared speech, Francis said that while it was a fact that Maciel founded the order "you cannot consider him an example of sainthood to imitate," adding that "returning to the past would be dangerous and senseless".
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It&aposs not clear if the protests will derail the sainthood cause of Cardinal August Hlond, but in the past the Vatican has taken such protests seriously and at the very least put the cases up for closer review.
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Richard M. Nixon, not otherwise a candidate for sainthood, changed the way the nation lives, breathes and does business, establishing the Environmental Protection Agency and enacting the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act, among other major environmental initiatives.
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The procedure to have Sheen canonized, known as a sainthood cause, was halted for three years between 2016 and last month because of a legal tug-of-war over his body between the archdioceses of New York and Peoria, Illinois.
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Romero became an icon for Latin America's poor, appearing on T-shirts similar to those bearing the image of Che Guevara, but his sainthood cause ran into stiff opposition in the Vatican and among powerful conservatives in the Latin American Church.
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A mostly lay organization of faithful Catholics, it was founded on the premise that all people are called to holiness and should aspire to sainthood, and that ordinary life and daily work are paths to sanctity and service to society.
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VATICAN CITY – A leading Jewish organization has criticized the Vatican&aposs decision to move World War II-era Cardinal August Hlond along the path to possible sainthood, saying he was "extremely" hostile to Poland&aposs Jews and failed to condemn a 1946 pogrom.
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She was one of three people I have met in a lifetime of meeting people who had an aura of sainthood about them, the others being Iona Opie, the British folklorist who collected children's rhymes, and I. F. Stone, the independent American journalist.
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Mother Teresa died in 1997 and the late Pope John Paul, who met her often, bent Vatican rules to grant a dispensation allowing the procedure to establish her case for sainthood to be launched two years after her death instead of the usual five.
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He told the court that when he asked Cardinal Edward Egan, then the archbishop of New York, if he could have the honor of sponsoring the cause for sainthood, Cardinal Egan said yes, and was told that the body would be transferred to Peoria.
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WARSAW, Poland – Pope Francis&apos decision to move the World War II-era head of Poland&aposs Catholic Church a step closer to possible sainthood has hit a stumbling block, after two leading Jewish organizations and even Polish Catholic publications called him out for anti-Semitic views.
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"I believe most people are good and most mamas oughta qualify for sainthood/I believe most Friday nights look better under neon or stadium lights," he sings on "Most People Are Good," which apart from its moment of inclusiveness is full of familiar small-town pride.
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Throw in the Islanders' years-long arena problems—even though they were technically resolved this year with plans for a new arena in Nassau County—and fans should be nominating Tavares for sainthood, because he never once complained publicly about any of the dysfunction he encountered for nine years.
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DOROTHY DAYDissenting Voice of the American CenturyBy John Loughery and Blythe Randolph In March 1003, 20 years after her death, the Vatican began a stringent examination of Dorothy Day's life to prove that she had demonstrated the "heroic virtue" that qualifies a Catholic for sainthood; this process is ongoing.
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Though she had originally agreed that her uncle could buried beneath St. Patrick's, it was she who had officially petitioned the court in 2016 to move the body to Peoria, after the cause for sainthood was suspended two years earlier by Peoria because of the tussle over the body.
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The qualities that elevate Bonnaire's illiterate, peasant girl to the role of unexpected leader are not overwrought, and Rivette is keen to show the young woman realistically: she might be on the path to sainthood, but she's not immune to experiences of the body and considerations of class and gender.
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For any filmmaker foolhardy enough to embark on a remake of "Ben-Hur," the kitschy 1959 sword-and-sandals epic that captured 11 Oscars and elevated Charlton Heston to Hollywood sainthood, the first order of business is to create a bigger and better version of that movie's climactic chariot race.
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In "Bakhita," fraught personal experiences intersect with historical and political events and time-honored religious practices, all encompassed within the span of the protagonist's own life — which moves from a village in late-19th-century Sudan to a convent in post-World-War-II Italy, and from slavery to sainthood.
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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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Democrats are now undermining the results of the special counsel investigation and the findings of no collusion in the report by Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE, who they once elevated to sainthood.
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Their boyhoods were a lot alike: Six years older, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was brought up in Buenos Aires in a family of Italian immigrants who took him to the movies often, and he grew up cherishing Italian cinema, especially Fellini's "La Strada" — "a film about the possibility of sainthood," Scorsese calls it.
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In 2004 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II, the first step toward sainthood, justified partly by his efforts on behalf of peace during World War I. In 2009 I was contacted by a French priest who asked me whether I would serve on an ecclesiastical committee to consider Empress Zita for beatification.
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He died in 2010, but history will remember him as one of the unwitting founding fathers of the Alternative Nation—his alt-rock sainthood immortalized by The Replacements' "Alex Chilton"—that rose up in the 80s and 90s, and a direct inspiration for the waves of celebrated indie weirdness that rippled through the dawn of the 21st Century.
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The source of this feeling of mine — that a Y.A. writer had best stay away from the topic of faith — is elusive, a kind of vapor that began swirling around me a decade ago when I wrote my first Y.A. novel, "The Possibilities of Sainthood," about a Catholic girl who longs to become the first living saint, followed by "This Gorgeous Game," about a young woman struggling with her faith amid the Catholic abuse scandal.
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