[aMorePerfectUnion]

If she wasn’t a saint the moment she died, there is absolutely no way she can become one now. Let’s hope she was.

[Last Dakotan]

If she wasn’t a saint the moment she died, there is absolutely no way she can become one now.

Though she likely died as a saint we don't get Western Union telegraphs informing us of this. We have to do what we can to confirm it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"If she wasn’t a saint the moment she died, there is absolutely no way she can become one now. Let’s hope she was."

Assuming that by "saint" you mean "saved," I don't think there's one person in this whole glorious Free Republic that would disagree with this per se...

...but in case there's somebody lurking out there who thinks canonization "makes" a person a saint, I have this to say:

• the Catholic Church doesn't teach that
• the Catholic Church has never taught that
• "sainthood" in the canonization sense, means a man or woman "officially recognized" as a person who led a life of heroic virtue, worthy of imitation
• the number of saints in heaven exceeds, probably by many orders of magnitude, the number of canonized saints, and
• that includes a whole lot more people than just pew-sitting, dues-paying Catholics. It includes all those whom God wishes to save: He alone looks into the heart of a person, and He alone is judge.