| Yet to avoid canonizing John Paul II or any pope at this point could come off as an insult, or a knock on the papacy. |
| That is why the Church when canonizing saints proclaims the heroism of their lives. |
| I'm not interested in seeing people suffer silently and then canonizing them for that. |
| The continued study and copying of literature in the schools, both Sumerian and Akkadian, by the middle of the 2nd millennium led to a remarkable effort of standardizing, or canonizing. |
| We need but mention Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, the author of an excellent work on the Rosary, and, closer to ourselves, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, whom I recently had the joy of canonizing. |
| Benedict did try to improve Vatican relations with France after the war by canonizing the French heroine Joan of Arc. |
