New “Saints”: How Much Did They Pay?
The costs for beatifications and canonisations – “this world so full of illusions and interests” (Specola) - have skyrocketed, writes IlMessaggero.it.
Some cases have cost over €750,000. The old suspicion is that in the Vatican money helps the saints into heaven.
Now, Francis has published some regulations. The postulator, that is, the person who collects materials, documents, and writes the Positio (the biography that attests to the holy life of a candidate) has the right to by paid proportionate to the work carried out. For the rest, "transparency" is the order of the day - whatever that means in the Francis Church.
Under Francis, almost a thousand candidates have been “canonised” or “beatified.”
Picture: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, CC BY-NC-ND, #newsNexvjxcajv
Some cases have cost over €750,000. The old suspicion is that in the Vatican money helps the saints into heaven.
Now, Francis has published some regulations. The postulator, that is, the person who collects materials, documents, and writes the Positio (the biography that attests to the holy life of a candidate) has the right to by paid proportionate to the work carried out. For the rest, "transparency" is the order of the day - whatever that means in the Francis Church.
Under Francis, almost a thousand candidates have been “canonised” or “beatified.”
Picture: © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, CC BY-NC-ND, #newsNexvjxcajv