However, in my experience, compared to lawyers generally, and class action lawyers specifically, these other professions are candidates for sainthood.
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"Miracles are important in the sainthood process because they show that this was not just another good person, " said Burke.
The Pope granted a dispensation so the procedure for establishing Mother Teresa's case for sainthood could start just two years after her death.
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If the fact that Pius XII was a pope gave his sainthood cause some inherent advantages, in other ways it made perceptions of his holiness less immediate and less personal.
Jews were also incensed at Benedict's constant promotion toward sainthood of Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope accused by some of having failed to sufficiently denounce the Holocaust.
Francis might be the pope who decides whether another miracle has been attributed to John Paul's intercession, which would enable the late, Polish-born pontiff to enjoy the church's highest honor, sainthood.
Larry Uzzell, Moscow correspondent for the religious-freedom monitoring organisation, the Keston Institute, said before the canonisation that the Church was under a lot of pressure to elevate the family to the sainthood.
Fifty different tribes in California condemned the sainthood conferred on Serra, said Deborah Miranda, a literature professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia and a member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation of California.
She had most of the attributes of sainthood: a dauntingly selfless life, devotion to a higher cause, rude single-mindedness, a thick skin, and a capacity to wring the withers of the rich and powerful.
"An attack against life is an attack against God, who is the author of life, " Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's office for sainthood, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
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