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	Criteria for Sainthood
		Sainthood cannot be bestowed upon a person by people below the spiritual level of a Saint.
		A child in the 4th grade would not be able to discern the difference of knowledge of a graduate student or a post-doctorate student.
		A Saint may be born to a certain religion, but can achieve Sainthood through spiritual practice, He goes beyond organised religion, and can see God (Soul) within every human being; that there are as many paths to God as there are people.
	www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org /spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/sainthood (0 words)

	phillyBurbs.com \| The Road to Sainthood
		The Congregation for the Causes of Saints is the Vatican agency that examines the lives and writings of candidates for sainthood and determines whether miracles attributed to them are valid.
		When the scrutiny is complete and the Congregation for Causes, made up of a group of cardinals from around the world, decides in favor of the individual, the case is presented to the pope.
		Sainthood is bestowed on a person after a second miracle has occurred that is attributable to the person to whom the petitioners prayed.
	www.phillyburbs.com /drexel/sainthoodsteps.shtml (475 words)

	USATODAY.com - New pope begins sainthood process for John Paul II
		ROME (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI put his predecessor on the fast track for sainthood Friday and appointed San Francisco Archbishop William Levada as his successor as guardian of church doctrine, the highest Vatican office ever held by an American.
		Benedict's decision on the sainthood process opens the way for the possible beatification and canonization of John Paul, following an investigation into the late pope's life and approval of miracles attributed to him.
		One miracle is required for John Paul to be beatified, a second one for him to be declared a saint.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-13-pope-sainthood_x.htm (0 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Catholicism in Canada
		The move to have the late Pope John Paul II canonized quickly got an early boost from his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, who waived the five-year waiting period that would traditionally be required before the formal launch of proceedings.
		This final step to sainthood is not taken lightly – canonization is considered to be an infallible act of the Pope.
		Sainthood is not revocable – there are no “former” saints.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/catholicism/sainthood.html (1125 words)

	John Paul put on the fast track to sainthood - World - smh.com.au
		The five-year waiting rule is meant, among other things, to allow emotions to settle down after a person dies and for documentation and witnesses supporting the sainthood cause to be prepared.
		When the sainthood cause is formally begun by the cardinal of Rome, John Paul will have the title "Servant of God".
		John Paul's sainthood process would move more quickly than others because it will be classified as a recent rather than ancient cause, bypassing a Vatican historical commission and moving directly to a theological commission.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/John-Paul-put-on-the-fast-track-to-sainthood/2005/05/14/1115843379321.html (691 words)

	The Anatomy of Sainthood
		If the subjectivity of sainthood is a necessary condition of inheriting eternal life, and if X is a necessary consequence of having the subjectivity of sainthood, then X itself will be a necessary condition of inheriting eternal life.
		Examining the concept of seminal sainthood is the second avenue we can use to explain the distinction between the knowledge of God that is part of the the subjectivity of a saint and the belief that results from it.
		Jack explains that "the subjectivity of sainthood is not granted to the saint full-blown; it is granted to the saint in a seminal form and then develops and matures over time." In other words, when a person is regenerated by the Holy Spirit, he may not have any knowledge of the gospel.
	www.mckenziestudycenter.org /theology/articles/anatomy.html (17663 words)

	Court clerk has role in sainthood tribunal - The Boston Globe
		PLYMOUTH -- The Plymouth District Court's longtime clerk-magistrate said yesterday that his recovery from a crippling back ailment is the subject of a secret tribunal convened by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to gather evidence of the possible sainthood of a deceased cardinal.
		John A. Sullivan, who a few years ago was severely hunched over and sometimes could not walk, said he had prayed to the late Cardinal John Henry Newman of Britain to intercede with God on his behalf.
		Verification of a miracle would significantly advance the cause for sainthood of Newman, a leading churchman, intellectual, and philosopher of the 19th century.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/27/court_clerk_has_role_in_sainthood_tribunal (724 words)

	Sainthood for Father Kino gets major advance \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		One hundred and thirty pounds of documents that support Kino's beatification — the second to last step toward sainthood — were presented to the Congregation of Rites in Rome on May 4, said Paolo Rossi of the Associazione Culturale Padre Eusebio F. Chini in the village of Segno, Italy, where Kino was born.
		The final step after beatification is canonization, or elevation to sainthood, and Rossi said supporters are hopeful that will happen by the 300th anniversary of Kino's death, in 2011.
		The impetus for the canonization of the Jesuit priest, whose likeness sits on horseback at 15th Street and Kino Parkway, is coming primarily from Italy and Hermosillo, Rossi said.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/134119 (705 words)

	Ibn al-Arabi - Fons Vitae books - The Seal of the Saints : Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn 'Arabi ; ...
		Founded on a careful analysis of the relevant texts, Chodkiewicz’s work examines this essential aspect of Ibn Arabi’s doctrine of sainthood, defining the nature and function of sainthood, while also specifying the criteria for a typology of saints based on the notion of prophetic inheritance.
		This is undoubtedly due to the complexity of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s ideas on Sainthood, but part of it also has to do with the fact that Chodkiewicz does not “waste” any of his words.
		And this is precisely where the “unity” in Ibn al-‘Arabi’s doctrine of Sainthood paradoxically lies: it is, like Wujud (Being) itself, formless and traceless, placeless and nameless.
	www.fonsvitae.com /sealof.html (1702 words)

	Sainthood
		As such, the aim of Sainthood practice is for you to live into, and as, the truth that all of life is just the Maker-Creator Aspect of God expressing Itself inside and through Its holonic self-aware versions of Itself we call a human being.
		Sainthood in Theohumanity consists of involves creating relationship with both the Maker-Creator and Its Makings and involves two vectors of practice, Creation-relational Sainthood and Creator-relational Sainthood.
		The aim of true Sainthood practice in Theohumanity is thus to first encounter the Allness Aspect of God through Creation relational Sainthood practice and the Maker-Creator Aspects of Living God through Creator-relational Sainthood practice.
	enhearten.org /enheartenment/sainthood (491 words)

	Pope John Paul moves closer to sainthood
		VATICAN CITY, April 1 (Reuters) - The late Pope John Paul moves a step closer to sainthood on Monday, the second anniversary of his death, when Catholic Church officials formally conclude the first phase of a probe into his holiness.
		The documentation includes the case of Marie Simon-Pierre, a 46-year-old French nun diagnosed with Parkinson's -- the same disease that the late Pope had -- until she said it inexplicably disappeared exactly two months after his death.
		Simon-Pierre, who worked as a maternity ward supervisor in Aix-En-Provence, could be central to the case since the Church demands proof of a medically unexplained healing before a candidate for sainthood can be beatified.
	vision.org /visionmedia/article.aspx?id=1510 (634 words)

	Miracle Worker: Pope John Paul II on Fast Track to Sainthood - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
		The late pontiff is believed to have had a hand in two divine interventions that led to the miraculous recoveries of terminally ill patients.
		The Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, casually known as the "saint factory," is also looking into claims that John Paul II interceded on behalf of a French nun who was incapacitated by Parkinson's disease.
		At the same time, he has put his predecessor on the fast track to sainthood by waiving the usual five-year waiting period after a candidate's death.
	www.spiegel.de /international/spiegel/0,1518,448108,00.html (0 words)

	Sainthood \| Encyclopedia of Religion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Historians of religion have liberated the category of sainthood from its narrower Christian associations and have employed the term in a more general way to refer to the state of special holiness that many religions attribute to certain people.
		William James described universal saintliness in psychological terms, while Joachim Wach defined the saint as a particular type of religious authority alongside the founder, the reformer, the priest, the prophet, and others.
		Fundamentally, then, sainthood may be described as a religion's acclamation of a person's spiritual perfection, however that perfection is defined.
	www.bookrags.com /research/sainthood-eorl-12 (430 words)

	pearls.org - Sainthood is a Proof of Divine Messengership
		Sainthood is a proof of Divine Messengership; the Sufi path is a proof of the Shari‘a.
		Through its illuminations and unfoldings and through its being benefited from and effulgence being received from it the Sufi path is a clear proof of the truths and the matters which the Shari‘a teaches; that they are the truth and that they come from the truth.
		Yes just as sainthood and the Sufi path are evidence and proof of Messengership and the Shari‘a so too they are a perfection of Islam and a means to its lights and through Islam a source of the progress and prosperity of humanity.
	www.pearls.org /index.php/content/view/645/50 (698 words)

	Top News- Sainthood Exam for John Paul II Ends - AOL News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rome Cardinal Camillo Ruini said Saturday he had been informed that completion of work by the diocese on the cause for beatification and sainthood will be marked with a ceremony in St. John's Lateran Basilica on April 2 in the capital.
		Shortly after John Paul's death, with faithful clamoring for quick canonization, Pope Benedict XVI, the pontiff's successor, waived the customary five-year waiting period to open the case for possible sainthood.
		Beatification is the last formal step in the process before possible sainthood, and as part of the process, church officials must certify that a miracle attributed to John Paul's intercession has occurred.
	news.aol.com /topnews/articles/_a/sainthood-exam-for-john-paul-ii-ends/n20070310071809990001 (475 words)

	CNN.com - John Paul on sainthood fast track - May 13, 2005
		Benedict's decision means that John Paul, who died on April 2, could be beatified and thus declared a "blessed of the Church" within a few years if a miracle can be attributed to him.
		The main purpose of the rule is to allow emotions to calm down after a person dies and for evidence and witnesses supporting the sainthood cause to be prepared.
		The news was met by applause by priests in the Basilica of St. John Lateran and Benedict joked that it was clear they had all understood Latin and did not repeat his announcement in Italian, Reuters said.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/05/13/pope.sainthood/index.html (298 words)

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		We urge Pope Benedict XVI to suspend the sainthood process for Pope Pius XII for the sake of historical truth and the deepening friendship between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people.
		While we understand that the process of sainthood is an internal matter for the Church, the issue of what Pius XII did or did not do to help save Jews during the Holocaust is a profound question that must be resolved first for the sake of the Jewish-Catholic relationship.
		To proceed on the process toward sainthood without having all of the facts would be premature when so much is not known about the historical truth of the Vatican's actions during the war.
	www.adl.org /PresRele/VaticanJewish_96/5048_96.htm (357 words)

	Sainthood for late pope will still take time - Europe - MSNBC.com
		A banner saying "Santo Subito" (Sainthood Fast) referring to the wish for Pope John Paul to be proclaimed saint quickly, is shown as thousands of Poles, some waving their national flag, attend the funeral Mass in St. Peter's Square for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on April 8.
		On Friday, Benedict said he was announcing the “joyous” news that he had ordered the waiving of the mandatory five-year waiting period for the start of the process toward beatification, the last formal step before possible canonization.
		When John Paul waived the waiting time for Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 after a lifetime of caring for the downtrodden, her cause moved swiftly, and she was beatified by the pontiff in 2003.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7838982 (656 words)

	Sainthood
		The Concept of Sainthood in Early Islamic Mysticism: Two Works by Al-Hakim Al-Tirmidhi; An Annotated Translation with Introduction translation by Bernd Radtke (RoutledgeCurzon Press) provides translations of the earliest Arabic autobiography and the earliest theoretical explanation of the psychic development and powers of an Islamic holy man (Saint, Friend of God).
		Besides the primary concern to present a worked out systematic Islamic theory of sainthood, Tirmidhi on numerous occasions in the Sira pauses, as it were, to scold opponents who hold different views about waláya and the role of the wall.
		When he descibes their exploitation of the young, widows and the gullible and denounces these would-be spiritual guides as being hypocrites and actively seeking leadership, this would appear to give some indication of the activities and real-life involvement of contemporary mystics and spiritual teachers.
	www.wordtrade.com /religion/islam/sainthoodR.htm (1843 words)

	The Hindu : The path to sainthood
		Privy as I was personally to the admiration and regard, almost reverence, that Pope John Paul II had for this Albanian-born nationalised-Indian nun, I was confident that this would become the fastest-ever case of sainthood in recent centuries.
		Both remarks were significant in the context of the textured history of the Church, when from the 12th century onwards, more scientific methods of investigation had made the process leading to sainthood more rigorous.
		It was not unusual then for sainthood to be conferred even after a century or more.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2003/10/04/stories/2003100401101000.htm (1381 words)

	Process for Sainthood
		The candidate for sainthood must first be proposed to the local bishop.
		Once the bishop accepts and formally opens the "cause" for canonization, a thorough investigation into the person's life and work is begun.
		Once complete, the evidence is presented to the bishops and cardinals who make up the congregation, and their judgment is forwarded to the pope.
	www.fathermcgivney.org /mcg/sainthood/index.cfm (255 words)

	Sainthood Process Begins for Pope John Paul II
		He said John Paul's case was just beginning and said his predecessor loved to remind everyone that young people are the hope and future of the church and of humanity.
		The case for sainthood of the late pope will involve the examination of a large amount of evidence and the questioning of witnesses.
		Another church official said that while nothing will be taken for granted, this could be one of the quickest sainthood procedures ever in the history of the church.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-06-28-voa65.cfm (578 words)

	Mother Teresa - Beatification and Road to Sainthood
		Many believe Blessed Mother Teresa will be named a saint of the Catholic Church someday, and her beatification is the latest step in that path to sainthood.
		After her beatification, the recognition of another miracle will be required for sainthood.
		Now achieving official sainthood is more complicated—and not without its own brand of politics and other human imperfections.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/Teresa/Sainthood.asp (900 words)

	Newsvine - John Paul II Sainthood Process Advances (Site not responding. Last check: )
		VATICAN CITY — Roman Catholic Church officials passed a key milestone in the drive to make Pope John Paul II a saint Monday, closing an investigation into his life during a ceremony on the second anniversary of the beloved pontiff's death.
		The remarkably fast pace underscores the Church's keen interest in beatifying John Paul and responding to the calls of "Santo Subito" or "Sainthood Immediately!" that erupted after his death.
		Pope Benedict XVI put John Paul on the fast track for possible sainthood just weeks after his April 2, 2005, death, waiving the customary five-year waiting period and allowing the investigation into John Paul's virtues to begin immediately.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2007/04/01/642528-john-paul-sainthood-reaching-milestone (656 words)

	Intercession From the Internet for John Paul's Sainthood
		But Oder, the leading advocate for John Paul's sainthood, must hustle to meet the demands of the Internet, where potential miracles are being reported in real time and campaigns for and against John Paul's sainthood are already in full swing.
		Just as John Paul's media savvy enlarged the papacy's presence on the world stage, the campaign for his sainthood is updating the way the faithful push for canonization.
		Local "cults of sainthood" worshiped at the tombs of early Christian martyrs and enshrined their personal belongings as a way of establishing their "reputation for sainthood."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/31/AR2006033101535_pf.html (772 words)

	CNN - Will process of sainthood be hastened for Mother Teresa? - Sept. 13, 1997
		But the road to sainthood often takes decades, if not centuries, as the Catholic Church ponders whether a candidate was holy enough to earn the special title.
		While some of the pope's choices for sainthood have been controversial, Mother Teresa is almost universally seen as an ideal candidate.
		The Vatican may consider speeding up the process for Mother Teresa, but Archbishop John P. Foley told CNN that this kind of accelerated procedure was normally not done.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9709/13/teresa.saint/index.html (519 words)

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