VATICAN CITY
The News & Observer
BY ALVISE ARMELLINI
dpa
VATICAN CITY – Mother Teresa’s path to sainthood was cleared Friday, after the Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis had approved a decision to attribute a second miracle to the Catholic nun who dedicated her life to India’s poor.
Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire first reported Thursday, on Francis’ 79th birthday, that the pontiff ratified the findings of the Vatican’s saint-making committee on the miraculous healing of a man suffering from serious brain disease. …
Teresa is a revered figure throughout the world, but her speedy path to sainthood – in modern times, second only to John Paul II’s, who made the grade in 2014 nine years after his death – has not been without its critics.
“It should be noted that her long time spiritual adviser was a serial predator, Jesuit Father Donald McGuire, who was criminally convicted,” Barbara Blaine, President of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Friday.
“When it is advantageous for Catholic officials to move quickly, like sainthood for popular figures Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II, they move quickly. But when it is advantageous for church officials to move slowly, like the clergy sex cases, they move slowly,” she added.
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