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Making Saints
How The Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes A Saint, Who Doesn'T, And Why
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eBook - ePub
Making Saints
How The Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes A Saint, Who Doesn'T, And Why
About this book
From inside the Vatican, the book that became a modern classic on sainthood in the Catholic Church.
Working from church documents, Kenneth Woodward shows how saint-makers decide who is worthy of the church's highest honor. He describes the investigations into lives of candidates, explains how claims for miracles are approved or rejected, and reveals the role politics -- papal and secular -- plays in the ultimate decision. From his examination of such controversial candidates as Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador and Edith Stein, a Jewish philosopher who became a nun and was gassed at Auschwitz, to his insights into the changes Pope John Paul II has instituted, Woodward opens the door on a 2,000-year-old tradition.
Working from church documents, Kenneth Woodward shows how saint-makers decide who is worthy of the church's highest honor. He describes the investigations into lives of candidates, explains how claims for miracles are approved or rejected, and reveals the role politics -- papal and secular -- plays in the ultimate decision. From his examination of such controversial candidates as Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador and Edith Stein, a Jewish philosopher who became a nun and was gassed at Auschwitz, to his insights into the changes Pope John Paul II has instituted, Woodward opens the door on a 2,000-year-old tradition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Local Politics of Sainthood
- 2. Saints, Their Cults, and Canonization
- 3. The Saint-Makers
- 4. The Witness of Martyrs
- 5. Mystics, Visionaries, and Wonder-Workers
- 6. The Science of Miracles and the Miracles of Science
- 7. The Structure of Holiness: Proving Heroic Virtue
- 8. The Harmonics of Holiness: Interpreting the Life of Grace
- 9. Popes as Saints: Canonization as Church Politics
- 10. Pius IX and the Posthumous Politics of Canonization
- 11. Sanctity and Sexuality
- 12. Holiness and the Life of the Mind
- Conclusion: The Future of Sainthood
- Photographs
- Appendix
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Photo Credits
- Copyright