Making saints: How does the canonization process work?

Making saints: How does the canonization process work?

It would not be atypical in contemporary parlance to describe a significant friend or other person we know as a “living saint.” But, what do we mean when calling one a “saint” and how that person is so recognized by the church?Catholicism’s 2,000-year history has seen the process for the proclamation of saints develop significantly.Religious historian and journalist Kenneth Woodward, quoting a popular history of the Vatican in his book “Making S…