This ‘Saint Maker’ Guides Catholics Through the Complicated & Expensive Canonization Process

Photo ~Mother Theodore Guerin
This ‘Saint Maker’ Guides Catholics Through the Complicated & Expensive Canonization Process

Canonization, the act and process through which the Catholic Church declares a deceased person a saint, is a complicated, long and expensive feat, to say the least. It requires patience, money, time and powerful advocates, as those who seek to see someone become honored in this way face plenty of hurdles.

“There is the bureaucracy. There is money — hundreds of thousands of dollars needed and official, church-approved representatives in Rome to push your cause — called postulators,” CNN’s Drew Griffin explains in a fascinating new report.

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1Oct 3, 2012

Saint Mother Theodore.
The making of a saint.More

Saint Mother Theodore.

The making of a saint.

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Mar 12, 2012

@AaronBrennan...

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Mar 12, 2012

This article was posted on the Blaze.com with much more details in its writing and it was not as politely presented as it is here. It was very very demonizing, I felt, and very much a protestant ploy to say that Catholic Saints are just bought not made by God. Please read more of the article , if you would like on the website, or do what I did and tell the Blaze that you might not want to read Anti …More

Temperance

Mar 12, 2012

I am surprised to see CNN doing a story on this! CNN being a ultra liberal station usually puts the Catholic Church in a bad light. If there is a scandal of any kind, there the first ones to report it. They love condemning the Church and causing rift.
They must be desperate for news to put this piece out.