However, in my experience, compared to lawyers generally, and class action lawyers specifically, these other professions are candidates for sainthood.

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"Miracles are important in the sainthood process because they show that this was not just another good person, " said Burke.

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The Pope granted a dispensation so the procedure for establishing Mother Teresa's case for sainthood could start just two years after her death.

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Personal: a Prius emits sanctimony (while a Chevy Volt confers sainthood).

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If the fact that Pius XII was a pope gave his sainthood cause some inherent advantages, in other ways it made perceptions of his holiness less immediate and less personal.

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Francis might be the pope who decides whether another miracle has been attributed to John Paul's intercession, which would enable the late, Polish-born pontiff to enjoy the church's highest honor, sainthood.

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She had most of the attributes of sainthood: a dauntingly selfless life, devotion to a higher cause, rude single-mindedness, a thick skin, and a capacity to wring the withers of the rich and powerful.

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Beatification is the last formal step before sainthood.

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"An attack against life is an attack against God, who is the author of life, " Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's office for sainthood, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

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