canonizations

The reasons we have beatifications and canonizations is to show it is possible to live a heroic life of virtue and goodness that inspires others, said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, D.C.

Pope John Paul II beatified 2011

The 70 people sainted by the Catholic Church since 2001 all flashed human foibles -- but their canonizations had nothing to do with achieving utter purity.

Bill Briggs: John Paul II And The Redefining Of Sainthood Bill Briggs 2011

Another hurdle: a large proportion of canonizations are of religious figures.

A Former Slave's Long Road to Sainthood 2010

Another hurdle: a large proportion of canonizations are of religious figures.

A Former Slave's Long Road to Sainthood 2010

Another hurdle: a large proportion of canonizations are of religious figures.

A Former Slave's Long Road to Sainthood 2010

This abolition streamlined the canonization process considerably, helping John Paul II to usher in an unprecedented number of elevations; nearly 500 individuals were canonized and over 1,300 were beatified during his tenure as Pope as compared to only 98 canonizations by all his 20th-century predecessors.

Craig To Argue Foot-Tapping A Constitutional Right 2009

There were the canonizations of nine saints, ranging from Juan Diego of Mexico to the little-known Pauline of the Heart of Jesus in Agony, keeping up a pace of saint-making that had led Ratzinger to suggest that John Paul was canonizing profligately.

The Year of two Popes 2006

There were the canonizations of nine saints, ranging from Juan Diego of Mexico to the little-known Pauline of the Heart of Jesus in Agony, keeping up a pace of saint-making that had led Ratzinger to suggest that John Paul was canonizing profligately.

The Year of two Popes 2006

Finally, the unfinished business not done well or not done at all would include, in my view, the Liturgy of the Hours, some aspects of the Lectionary, and the Calendar, especially the Sanctoral, where more space should be given to local saints over against the centralized cult favored by the overly-centralized canonization process with its unfortunate “political canonizations” directed at the self-glorification of the ecclesial nomenklatura.

Archive 2008-08-17 papabear 2008

But the ecclesiastics in their receipts accept of the same money that we do; though when they are to make any payment, it is in canonizations, indulgences, and masses.

Leviathan 2007