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Luigi_Daniele
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Pray for us!
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Lily_Bernans
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People are canonized too quickly. Personally, I think more investigation needs to be done.
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Mintaka
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Venerable Maria Antonia de la Paz y Figueroa, aka Mama Antula, died in 1799. Her beatification miracle occurred in 1904 and was investigated and submitted by 1905. She was finally declared a Venerable in 2010, and now her miracle has been approved in 2016.
In the old days, a simple question could take months, so they would save them all up and ship them at the same time. Then the poor folks back at home had to take months answering all the questions and then sending the answers back.
The more recent submissions are mostly electronic documents, and shipping of stuff is also faster. If the Vatican guys have a question, they can just email or call.
Of course, the real time-eater was the fact that Mama Antula wrote thousands of letters to her Jesuit friends back in Europe (and they saved them faithfully and passed them along and translated them), so the people at the Congregation had to read and evaluate thousands of letters, too!
In the old days, a simple question could take months, so they would save them all up and ship them at the same time. Then the poor folks back at home had to take months answering all the questions and then sending the answers back.
The more recent submissions are mostly electronic documents, and shipping of stuff is also faster. If the Vatican guys have a question, they can just email or call.
Of course, the real time-eater was the fact that Mama Antula wrote thousands of letters to her Jesuit friends back in Europe (and they saved them faithfully and passed them along and translated them), so the people at the Congregation had to read and evaluate thousands of letters, too!
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Tarpeian_Rock
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Meaning no disrespect, but founding a religious order or community certainly seems to be a “fast track,” relatively speaking. I know, so much has to do with the paper trail. Still, I wish more emphasis would be placed on someone who leaves a “trail” on people’s hearts. Thinking of people like Ven. Solanus Casey, or the “Grunt Padre” killed in Viet Nam, Fr, Vincent Capodanno, or Fr. John Washington, one of the heroic chaplains of the USAT Dorchester.
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Lily_Bernans
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Well, I"ll admit, that’s not too fast!
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Della
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Religious orders are often world-wide and so have more resources to promote one of their own. Isolated saints take longer since gathering material on them can be more time consuming, if they even have anyone pushing their cause forward. This doesn’t mean they aren’t saints, of course, it merely means getting their names added to the canon can be more difficult.
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