All you need to know about the Catholic sainthood process is the demographics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:R...ationality
Wouldn't you know, the vast majority of them are from Western Europe, in particular Italy, France, Spain and Germany, as if that's a representative cross-section of the world for the religion that calls itself "universal."
Now most of those Western European canonizations were done centuries ago. So to the extent they can find ANYONE with notoriety from the past couple generations like Mother Teresa or Pope John Paul II they will pounce, "fast-track" them (which I believe will become the new normal for the celebrities) and try to remind us that the church still exists.
Without looking it up, John Paul II and Teresa were the last two canonized saints, no? What great role models; one presided over worldwide sex abuse with complete indifference, and the other saw beauty in abject suffering (while pocketing millions of dollars from corrupt bigwigs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:R...ationality
Wouldn't you know, the vast majority of them are from Western Europe, in particular Italy, France, Spain and Germany, as if that's a representative cross-section of the world for the religion that calls itself "universal."
Now most of those Western European canonizations were done centuries ago. So to the extent they can find ANYONE with notoriety from the past couple generations like Mother Teresa or Pope John Paul II they will pounce, "fast-track" them (which I believe will become the new normal for the celebrities) and try to remind us that the church still exists.
Without looking it up, John Paul II and Teresa were the last two canonized saints, no? What great role models; one presided over worldwide sex abuse with complete indifference, and the other saw beauty in abject suffering (while pocketing millions of dollars from corrupt bigwigs).
