Reply #5: Pius XII canonisation quandry: Cardinal Ratzinger recently said [View All]

the "miracle" clause on which sainthood depends is going to be dropped anyway - so no real problem in canonising any members of the P2 Lodge such as Giovani Pacelli or his successor Roncalli.....

Edit: the Miracle Clause:

Miracles are out

The entry requirements for sainthood are lower than ever. Which seems to be true of everything these days

Lucy Mangan
Wednesday December 22, 2004
The Guardian

It is both heartening and depressing to see the Pope begin to engage with the modern world by planning to abolish the requirement for individuals to perform "medically inexplicable" posthumous miracles before they can be canonised. Those who die having led truly exemplary lives will, like a Fortier-affiliated nanny, be fast-tracked a visa to sainthood. This tentative step towards modernisation should be applauded, if only because an institution composed entirely of immutable anachronisms unfathomable to the general populace will surely wither and die (witness the Royal Variety Performance). At the same time, it will be a shame to bid adieu to one of the more exhilarating aspects of the faith, which would otherwise stand vigil against the fundamental pessimism that characterises this cheerless age.

You could argue, of course, that it's an egalitarian measure. As the latter-day saints are the ecclesiastical equivalent of celebrities - figures of hope and aspiration, albeit of unattainable spiritual rather than physical perfection - they should be released from their miraculous duties, just as the secular majority have released their icons from the burden of displaying talent. If we demand no more of our celebrities than that they appear on red carpets wearing a desperate grin and a handful of sequins, fellate John Leslie or periodically scream, "Am I mingin'?" at a houseful of sofa-bound imbeciles before we reward them with our gaping admiration, it's hard to see why Mother Teresa should be required to heal the terminally sick before she can enter the pantheon of greats.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1378494,00.html