• The process of beatification and canonization has undergone various reforms in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. For current practice, as well...
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    His work published from 1734 to 1738 governed the proceedings until 1917. The article "Beatification and canonization process in 1914" describes the procedures...
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    Giovanni Battista Piamarta (category Beatifications by Pope John Paul II)
    life of heroic virtue. The process for the miracle required for his beatification was held in the diocese of its origin and was later validated in Rome...
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    Eduardo Francisco Pironio (category Beatifications by Pope Francis)
    sanctity has increased, and therefore it has been formally requested that we begin his cause of beatification and canonization". The Archdiocesan Tribunal...
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    Óscar Romero (category Beatifications by Pope Francis)
    debated and initially led to impediments in his beatification process, with both denials and affirmations of Romero adhering to it. According to his biographer...
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    Pope Pius X (category Beatifications by Pope Pius XII)
    countries is very large, partly because he was very well known, and his beatification and canonization in the early 1950s was during a period of time following...
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    Juan Diego (category Beatifications by Pope John Paul II)
    regulating the procedures for beatification and canonization, the requirement for an authenticating miracle prior to beatification was dispensed with, on the...
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    Mariam Thresia Chiramel (category Beatifications by Pope John Paul II)
    present there during the beatification ceremony at St. Peter's Square. The second miracle – and the one needed for her canonization – was investigated in...
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  • Postulator (category Canonization)
    guides a cause for beatification or canonization through the judicial processes required by the Catholic Church. The qualifications, role and function of the...
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  • Devil's advocate (category Canonization)
    against the canonization (sainthood) of a candidate to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring canonization". In common...
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    Sede vacante (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    even after the death of the pope, and also conduct the burial and the preparation for the new election. This process was evident with Camerarius Boso Breakspeare...
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    Ursula Ledóchowska (category Beatifications by Pope John Paul II)
    a life of heroic virtue. Ledóchowska's beatification depended on two miracles prior to the 1983 alterations and as such two cases – both in Kraków – were...
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    Pope Benedict XVI (category Articles to be expanded from January 2023)
    Holiness Benedict XVI for the examination of the cause for beatification and canonization of the Servant of God John Paul II". Vatican.va. 9 May 2005...
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    According to canon 6, the 1983 code of canon law abrogates the 1917 code of canon law and any penal laws made under it that are not contained in the 1983 code...
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    Compromised Canonization". Gloria.tv. 9 March 2018. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2019. "Initiate canonical process and suspend...
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    Pope Paul VI (category Beatifications by Pope Francis)
    according to Christian tradition. Paul VI beatified 38 individuals in his pontificate and canonized 84 saints in 21 causes. Among the beatifications included...
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  • Mariam Vattalil (category Beatifications by Pope Francis)
    her impending beatification in March 2017 and expressed his enthusiasm for being able to attend the beatification. The diocesan process took place in...
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    Three Martyrs of Chimbote (category Beatifications by Pope Francis)
    and for his esteemed preaching abilities. Pope Francis gave approval on 3 February 2015 to their beatification after affirming their martyrdom, and the...
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    José Maria de Yermo y Parres (category Beatifications by Pope John Paul II)
    him the title of Venerable. The process for the miracle leading to beatification spanned from July to August 1981 and was validated later on 20 October...
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    Rafael Arnaiz Barón (category Beatifications by Pope John Paul II)
    2009. The miracle that led to the canonization was the January 2001 healing of Begoña Alonso Leon in Madrid. She was 30 and in the fifth month of being...
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  • twentieth century also saw the beatification (1952) and the canonization of Friar Antonio Maria Pucci; the canonization of Clelia Barbieri (d. 1870), foundress...
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    beginning of Arrupe's beatification process by the Diocese of Rome. On 14 November 2018, a website was established with testimonials and archival material...
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    Mussolini and later occupied by Germany". Cornwell's work was the first to have access to testimonies from Pius XII's beatification process as well as to many...
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  • Enrico Rebuschini (category Beatifications by Pope John Paul II)
    for the launch of a beatification process. The cause did indeed open sometime later and culminated in 1997 with his beatification. Enrico Rebuschini was...
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    permission to venerate, which is (2) a mere permission, and no precept; while canonization implies a universal precept" (Beccari, Camillo. "Beatification and Canonisation"...
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    was nicknamed the "Bishop of the Barrios." His cause for canonization was opened in 2006 and on 8 July 2016, Pope Francis named him Venerable in recognition...
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  • Penance and Reconciliation", and giving the additional alternative names of "Conversion", "Confession", and "Forgiveness". Prior to 1973, the formula of absolution...
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  • Excommunication in the Catholic Church (category Articles to be expanded from January 2023)
    comparable to house arrest. Access to electronic devices may also be restricted for persons sentenced to a life of prayer and penance. One reform in the 1983 code...
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  • 475". Code of Canon Law. The Holy See. 1983. Retrieved 2007-06-21. "Canon 478". Code of Canon Law. The Holy See. 1983. Retrieved 2007-06-21. "Canon 406"....
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  • but, in its essential mystery, it is a reality ontologically and temporally prior to every individual particular Church" (Communionis notio, 9). Canon...
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