Archbishop Fisichella, who is the head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelization (a relatively new office of the Roman Curia established to renew the effort of spreading the message of the Roman Catholic Church), spoke about the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta this past Tuesday in an interview with Catholic News Agency.

 

Initial plans point for Mother Teresa to be canonized on September 4, 2016, although a Vatican spokesperson clarified today that all plans at this point are hypothetical.

 

 

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Bojaxhiu in 1910 in the city of Skpoje, located in present-day Macedonia. After joining the Sisters of Loretto as an 18 year old, the Lorettos' missionary work brought Teresa to India, where she first began her work for the poor in near the Himalayan mountains 1929. By 1950, Teresa had gone one to successfully found a new congregation of sisters, the Missionaries of Charity, a congregation committed to caring for sick and abandoned children, battered and troubled women, former prostitutes, the mentally ill, refugees, individuals with AIDS, lepers, and the sick elderly. Mother Teresa began her congregation in Calcutta, India, and her congregation can now be found in over 130 countries.

 

She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and after her death in 1997, Pope John Paul II waived the normal Catholic tradition of waiting 5 years after a person's death to begin the process of considering someone for sainthood, instead directing the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (the Roman Catholic Church's office responsible for overseeing the process of a person being established as a Catholic saint) to begin researching her life in 1999, thus beginning the process of investigating whether or not she would be able to be moved towards canonization as a saint only 2 years after Mother Teresa's death.

 

In October 2003, Pope John Paul II conducted a Beatification Ceremony for Mother Teresa. Beatification is the third step in the process of becoming a saint, and is the first public ceremony conducted in the process of becoming a saint, wherein the candidate for sainthood is permanently endowed title of "Blessed". The Beatification Ceremony, held in St. Peter's Square, was attended by over 300,000 pilgrims and Catholic faithful. You can click here to read JPII's sermon from the ceremony.

 

Pope Francis (whose papal namesake is taken from one of the Catholic Church's most notable champions of the poor - St. Francis of Assisi) has marked much of his ordained life and papal reign with outspoken compassion for the less fortunate throughout the world and with passionate attention given to social justice issues. By all reports, the pontiff is overjoyed at the prospect of being able to canonize one of the most visible advocates of the poor, and one of the most recognizable Catholics of the 20th Century.

Anybody know the last Saint to be canonized?

As per my post in the "famous person to die that had an impact on me" thread, waiting to see when princess Diane gets canonized!

Anybody know the last Saint to be canonized?

 

Pope Francis has actually canonized 21 saints during his papacy, including Pope John XXIII, and Pope John Paul II, both of whom he canonized last April.

 

He also has a Canonization Ceremony for Father Junipero Serra scheduled this upcoming September in Washington DC at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. I'm considering trying to work things out to make it there.

Fun fact:

 

Mother Teresa's canonization will make her the only Catholic Saint, to date, to have stood on Covington Catholic's football field.

 

 

^ That's her, speaking at a public prayer service held in Cov Cath's Wooten Stadium on June 19, 1982.

I believe she also spoke once at Bellarmine's Knight's Hall.

Anybody know the last Saint to be canonized?

 

Pope John Paul II?

Anybody know the last Saint to be canonized?

 

There were four just this past weekend. Four nuns: three were the founder of religious orders and one was a stigmatist from Syria.

Call me old-fashioned (most people do), but I don't like the fast-tracking. It's not a great precedent that John Paul II left us there. There's a reason we've waited in the past. If these people are going to be held up by the Church as examples of heroic virtue to whom miracles have been attributed, I want us to make darn sure we're taking our time.

Awesome to see this, and thanks for posting.

 

People, especially Christians who leave/have left the Church, are so caught up in what the Church tells its flock they "can" and "can't do," that they forget that people like Mother Theresa are what its all about. People like Mother Theresa are the ideal Christians, literally serving others in the name of Christ.

There were four just this past weekend. Four nuns: three were the founder of religious orders and one was a stigmatist from Syria.

 

Émilie de Villeneuve

Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception

Miriam Baouardy

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas

Call me old-fashioned (most people do), but I don't like the fast-tracking. It's not a great precedent that John Paul II left us there. There's a reason we've waited in the past. If these people are going to be held up by the Church as examples of heroic virtue to whom miracles have been attributed, I want us to make darn sure we're taking our time.

 

Agreed. If we as Catholics want to truly venerate the saints, then I think we need to maintain that each and every one of those saints has undergone detailed scrutiny and has been put under a microscope in such a way as to determine that they are most definitely deserving of being named a saint and as a permanent example to all Catholics.

 

 

Plus it makes life harder for those still fighting to maintain traditional Catholic perspectives on faith by supporting the argument for breaking tradition by saying, in a manner, "Hey...if 'tradition' is such a bug deal to Catholicism, then why does is not apply here?"

Plus it makes life harder for those still fighting to maintain traditional Catholic perspectives on faith by supporting the argument for breaking tradition by saying, in a manner, "Hey...if 'tradition' is such a bug deal to Catholicism, then why does is not apply here?

 

Which is part of my problem with a lot of things that have gone on within the Church since the early 60s, but that's far off topic.

 

There's no doubt that Mother Teresa is one that we can look up to as a life of heroic virtue. Plus I think her writings detail a level of struggle with her faith that all people can relate to; she wrestled with her beliefs at times but ultimately never wavered from her faith in Christ. An excellent example in this age of doubt.

Edited May 21, 201511 yr by Getslow

Call me old-fashioned (most people do), but I don't like the fast-tracking. It's not a great precedent that John Paul II left us there. There's a reason we've waited in the past. If these people are going to be held up by the Church as examples of heroic virtue to whom miracles have been attributed, I want us to make darn sure we're taking our time.

 

Yeah, I think JPII started it with Jose Maria Escriva I think. Which I am not too sure about Escriva and Opus Dei in the first place.

Archbishop Fisichella, who is the head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelization (a relatively new office of the Roman Curia established to renew the effort of spreading the message of the Roman Catholic Church), spoke about the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta this past Tuesday in an interview with Catholic News Agency.

 

Initial plans point for Mother Teresa to be canonized on September 4, 2016, although a Vatican spokesperson clarified today that all plans at this point are hypothetical.

 

 

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Bojaxhiu in 1910 in the city of Skpoje, located in present-day Macedonia. After joining the Sisters of Loretto as an 18 year old, the Lorettos' missionary work brought Teresa to India, where she first began her work for the poor in near the Himalayan mountains 1929. By 1950, Teresa had gone one to successfully found a new congregation of sisters, the Missionaries of Charity, a congregation committed to caring for sick and abandoned children, battered and troubled women, former prostitutes, the mentally ill, refugees, individuals with AIDS, lepers, and the sick elderly. Mother Teresa began her congregation in Calcutta, India, and her congregation can now be found in over 130 countries.

 

She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and after her death in 1997, Pope John Paul II waived the normal Catholic tradition of waiting 5 years after a person's death to begin the process of considering someone for sainthood, instead directing the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (the Roman Catholic Church's office responsible for overseeing the process of a person being established as a Catholic saint) to begin researching her life in 1999, thus beginning the process of investigating whether or not she would be able to be moved towards canonization as a saint only 2 years after Mother Teresa's death.

 

In October 2003, Pope John Paul II conducted a Beatification Ceremony for Mother Teresa. Beatification is the third step in the process of becoming a saint, and is the first public ceremony conducted in the process of becoming a saint, wherein the candidate for sainthood is permanently endowed title of "Blessed". The Beatification Ceremony, held in St. Peter's Square, was attended by over 300,000 pilgrims and Catholic faithful. You can click here to read JPII's sermon from the ceremony.

 

Pope Francis (whose papal namesake is taken from one of the Catholic Church's most notable champions of the poor - St. Francis of Assisi) has marked much of his ordained life and papal reign with outspoken compassion for the less fortunate throughout the world and with passionate attention given to social justice issues. By all reports, the pontiff is overjoyed at the prospect of being able to canonize one of the most visible advocates of the poor, and one of the most recognizable Catholics of the 20th Century.

 

Call me old-fashioned (most people do), but I don't like the fast-tracking. It's not a great precedent that John Paul II left us there. There's a reason we've waited in the past. If these people are going to be held up by the Church as examples of heroic virtue to whom miracles have been attributed, I want us to make darn sure we're taking our time.

 

Two questions — one for each of you:

 

• CWB — Was Mother Theresa stationed in Marion Co., Ky., for a time? Because that's what "Sisters of Loretto" means around here.

 

• Getslow — Are you or are you not in favor of "waiving the third miracle," as Father Guido Sarducci so eloquently put it some 35+ years ago? I'll leave it up to you and everybody else to look it up and figure out the humor behind my post, for those who didn't recognize it immediately.