What has the Church traditionally done to determine if someone is a saint? What about the new process introduced after Vatican II—and how has the introduction of Modernism caused doubt about post-conciliar canonizations. In this extensive article “Beatification and Canonization since Vatican II”, published by SiSiNoNo in June 2011, Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize, theology profesor at the Econe seminary, analyses the principles involved in the beatifications and canonisations and the difficulties arrising from the new doctrines of the Second Vatican Council. Fr. Gleize raises in particular three difficulties: the inadequacy of the procedure, the collegiality, and the concept of heroic virtue.
Beatification and canonization since Vatican II: 1 – District of the USA
