The Saints of Vatican II

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I guess it’s a matter of opinion then. Saints are canonized for their personal piety, and I believe he was very pious.
 
Saints are chosen because of their heroic virtue in living out the Gospel

You’re right though, as far as this thread is concerned, it’s merely a difference of opinion

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goout said:
Romano Guardini perhaps?
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From what I can tell, Servant of God Romano Guardini was influential on the thinking of the Council, but he was not present at the Council.

I’m looking for people who were present at the Council - like a previous poster pointed out Servant of God Frank Duff.
 
angel12 said:
Extraordinary” actions are not required for canonization. Holiness of life and fidelity to Church teachings are. The Pope Emeritus seems to me to qualify on both counts.
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My prognostication is eventually the Church will venerate both Saint Pope Benedict XVI and Saint Pope Francis.

Oh and anyone who takes issue with the Church venerating and canonizing modern Pontiffs, go take a look at the Coptic Popes. There’s only a few of them who aren’t venerated as Saints and there’s been almost 200.
 
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He was an extraordinary theologian as an academic at the Univ. of Bonn,Tübingen, and Regensburg, becoming the university vice president there and a theological adviser to the cardinals of Germany, as well as heading up the CDF for JP2
 
Bl. Jerzy Popuelsko certainly sprang from the fertile soil of the Council, even though he was more ‘boots-on-the-ground’ than most of the others mentioned here
 
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christofirst said:
Servant of God Terence Cooke of New York was there.
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Do you have any source for this, or how do you know this?

Researching him it seems he probably would have been there, but I can’t find any explicit reference that he was involved with the Council.
 
Excellent @christofirst.

So as of now, the list of Vatican II saints is:

St. Pope John XXIII
St. Pope John Paul the Great
Bl. (Soon to be St.) Pope Paul VI
Bl. Alvaro del Portillo
Ven. Pope John Paul I
Servant of God Terence Cooke
Servant of God Frank Duff
 
It certainly helps 🙂

And I was just answering your question of
JimR-OCDS said:
Then say what he did that was extraordinary
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And, regardless of Summorum Pontificum, no one can argue against the scholastic might of Ratzinger 🙂

There’s absolutely more to sainthood than being an academician.
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Because he really didn’t do anything as Pope.

Oh, he’s a brilliant man who was highly intellectual, but he was nothing more than a transition Pope and was not really good in public affairs. He was honest enough to see this in himself and resigned

Jim
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But he did A LOT as priest, bishop and Cardinal. The vast number of books he wrote are very important and some of his books are actually required reading in seminaries and Catholic theology departments: esp Jesus of Nazareth.

Becoming a Saint has less to do with what you did when alive, vs what you do when you are dead.

Pope Benedict will be a Saint one day, I’m sure.
 
I don’t mean to start trouble, but what has Pope Francis done that you have him leapfrogging over Pope Benedict?
 
Maximilian75 said:
And, regardless of Summorum Pontificum, no one can argue against the scholastic might of Ratzinger 🙂

There’s absolutely more to sainthood than being an academician.
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From every indication we have Father Benedict is an incredibly holy man.

And, IMO, vouchsafing the Church with Summorum Pontificum and Anglicanorum Coetibus alone should solidfy his sainthood… And that’s to say nothing of all he has given the Church in his career as a theologian, teacher, priest, cardinal and finally Pope.
 
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Yeah, but we all know how Jim feels about SP. And there’s nothing wrong with his opinion.
I just wanted to say that there’s more to Benedict than SP 🙂
 
Apparently, Venerable Fulton J. Sheen attended all four sessions of Vatican II. I did not know this, and I have read reports that later he was not entirely happy with some of the post conciliar changes to the liturgy. Make him a saint of Vatican II with reservations, I guess.
 
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Apparently, Venerable Fulton J. Sheen attended all four sessions of Vatican II. I did not know this, and I have read reports that
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Yep, he did!

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsheen.html

And from what I heard, he ended up eventually embracing the Ordinary Form.

St. Pope John XXIII
St. Pope John Paul the Great
Bl. (Soon to be St.) Pope Paul VI
Bl. Alvaro del Portillo
Ven. Pope John Paul I
Ven. Fulton Sheen
Servant of God Terence Cooke
Servant of God Frank Duff

The list of the Saints of Vatican II continues to grow!
 
You overhyping Vatican II the offical Saints of the Church from that time period are

St. John Paul II, St.John XIII and soon be Saint Blessed Pope Paul VI. The others are on the road to Sainthood

It was not the holiest time in Church History that belongs to the Early Church Fathers time period
 
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