[Steelfish]

The Church doesn’t make saints. It confirms through proof of two miracles established by an international panel of experts and neutral scientists that a person who was praying to a particular individual was cured completely, of what the doctors called an incurable disease, and the cure must be complete and permanent. This is earthly confirmation that the person is in Heaven. It takes one miracle to achieve the status of “Blessed.” So far even Bishop Fulton J. Sheen has not attained the “Blessed” status. So good luck on Billy Graham.

[Alex Murphy]

The Church doesn’t make saints. It confirms through proof of two miracles established by an international panel of experts and neutral scientists that a person who was praying to a particular individual was cured completely, of what the doctors called an incurable disease, and the cure must be complete and permanent. This is earthly confirmation that the person is in Heaven. It takes one miracle to achieve the status of “Blessed.” So far even Bishop Fulton J. Sheen has not attained the “Blessed” status. So good luck on Billy Graham.

No argument from me, re the Catholic understanding of what a saint is. If you don't mind, I'm going to expand on those steps you posted to put some order to them:

• Unrecognized saint dies
• Unrecognized saint passes through Purgatory
• Unrecognized saint makes it to Heaven
• Living person prays to (unrecognized) non-saint for miracle re incurable disease
• Unrecognized saint in Heaven, hears prayer
• Unrecognized saint In Heaven, passes prayer on to God
• God grants miracle re incurable disease
• Living person experiences miraculous cure
• Living person cites prayer to (unrecognized) non-saint
• International Panel of Experts investigates living person's miraculous cure
• International Panel of Experts declares living person's miraculous cure "complete" and "permanent"
• International Panel of Experts attributes miraculous cure to (unrecognized) non-saint
• International Panel of Experts declares that (unrecognized) non-saint is in Heaven, has answered prayer
• Unrecognized saint formally granted title of "Blessed"

  If entire process successfully repeats:

• Unrecognized saint formally granted title of "Saint"
• Billy Graham probably won't go to Heaven, likely will not hear prayers or pass them on to God from where he's going