The big news from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints this past week was, of course, that Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Fulton Sheen, clearing the way for his beatification.
Francis has beatified almost as many people in his six years in charge of the See of Peter as Pope St John Paul II did over the whole of his 26-year reign. In fairness, Francis did cover more than 500 of them with one stroke of the pen, when he approved the beatification, in 2013, of 522 Spanish Civil War martyrs. Still, he has kept up a brisk pace, and has declared an eclectic assortment of new Blesseds.
