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Ever since the Second Vatican Council spoke of the \u201cuniversal call to holiness,\u201d there has been a move to recognize more lay men and women as saints, as models of sanctity for lay Catholics.\u00a0 Several contemporary saints have already been raised to the \u201cglories of the altar,\u201d among them St. Gianna Molla (1922-1962), an Italian mother (pictured here) who carried a child to term rather than consenting to an abortion, and who died in the process.\u00a0 Others are on their way include Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925), the charismatic Italian social activist who once said, \u201cCharity is not enough; we need social reform.\u201d In that same vein is the redoubtable Dorothy Day, the American-born co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, whose cause for canonization has just been advanced.\u00a0 And in 2008, Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin, the devoutly Catholic parents of St. Th\u00e9r\u00e9se of Lisieux (and her equally pious sisters) were beatified in 2008, the rare instance of a husband and wife recognized together.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to recognizing saints, the church still tends to favor popes, bishops, priests and members of religious orders.\u00a0 Last month, Pope Benedict XVI released the latest list of 27 candidates for sainthood, which consisted of: martyrs in the Spanish Civil War, including a bishop and 13 Daughters of Charity; an Austrian priest killed in Buchenwald; the Mexican foundress of a women\u2019s religious order; an 18th<\/sup>-century Italian diocesan priest and a Dominican priest who founded the Bethany community.\u00a0 While there are plenty of holy Fathers and Mothers on that list, where are they holy mothers and fathers?<\/p>\n

Fifty years after Vatican II, in the midst of the church\u2019s continued invitation for lay people to lead holy lives, why are there still relatively few role models for the laity?<\/p>\n

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St. Gianna Molla<\/p><\/div>\n

Many lay people have told me, over the years,\u00a0that they long for a saint who lived a life of extraordinary holiness in ordinary situations.\u00a0 That is,\u00a0a layperson\u00a0other than a saint from the very earliest days of the church (St. Joseph); someone who wasn\u2019t royalty (like St. Elizabeth of Hungary); someone who didn\u2019t end up in a religious order at the end of his or her life (like St. Bridget of Sweden); someone who didn\u2019t initially plan to live as \u201cbrother and sister\u201d while married (like Louis and Z\u00e9lie Martin); someone who didn\u2019t found a religious order or social movement (like Dorothy Day); and someone who didn\u2019t die in terrible circumstances (like St. Gianna Molla).<\/p>\n

While Catholics recognize that the canonized saint needs to have lived a life of \u201cheroic sanctity,\u201d many\u00a0long for someone who they can hope to emulate in their daily lives.\u00a0 Which raises an important question: Who is holier–Mother Teresa or the elderly church-going mother who cares for decades for an adult child who is autistic?\u00a0 Pope John Paul II or the pious educator who serves as a director of religious education in an inner-city parish, while holding down another job to support his family?\u00a0 The answer: they\u2019re both saintly, in their own ways.\u00a0 As Blessed John XXIII said about St. Aloysius Gonzaga, the 16th<\/sup>-century Jesuit, \u201cIf Aloysius had been as I am, he would have become holy in a different way.\u201d\u00a0 (And not to put too fine a point on it, but that\u2019s still a pope talking about a member of a religious order.)<\/p>\n

\u201cHeroic sanctity\u201d comes in many forms\u2014and it includes those whose faith inspires them to found a religious order, and those whose faith enables them to care for a sick child for years on end.<\/p>\n

Currently there are three reasons that frustrate the desire for more lay saints of any stripe.\u00a0 The first is the persistent belief, still ingrained in many Catholics, that ordination or taking religious vows represents a higher level of holiness than does, say, raising a child.\u00a0\u00a0As a young boy in Sunday school class I was once given\u00a0a picture\u00a0to color.\u00a0 It featured\u00a0a priest and sister on one side of the page, and a husband and wife on the other.\u00a0 Under the husband and wife the legend read: \u201cGood.\u201d\u00a0 Under the priest and sister: \u201cBetter.\u201d \u00a0But even the saints disagreed with this.\u00a0 \u201cHoliness is not the luxury of\u00a0 a few,\u201d said Mother Teresa. \u201cIt is a simple duty for you and for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second factor is the more public nature of the lives of many of the priests and members of religious orders who are canonized.\u00a0 It\u2019s easier to see the \u201cresults\u201d of the religious order founder or foundress; much harder is it to know about the elderly mother\u2019s care for the autistic child: such accomplishments rarely make news. So the church\u2019s requirement that a local \u201cdevotion\u201d spring up around the person will naturally be thwarted.\u00a0 This kind of \u201chidden\u201d lay holiness will be less likely to attract the devout simply because it is less well known.<\/p>\n

The third reason is the arduous, time-consuming and expensive canonization procedures, which only religious orders and dioceses can afford (or understand).\u00a0 Certainly it makes sense to have standards–and high ones–for someone to be canonized, and a thorough vetting process is required.\u00a0 But not many children of holy parents are able to navigate the complex process required by the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints (if they even know it).\u00a0 Once the\u00a0mother of the autistic boy dies, who is there to advance her \u201ccause\u201d? \u00a0God alone knows of her holiness, yet her example might speak to many more Catholics than even that of a pope.<\/p>\n

If the church hopes to offer relevant models of holiness for lay people, it\u2019s time to make the canonization process far more accessible, and far less expensive, for those who knew a holy husband, wife, mother, father, friend or neighbor.\u00a0 Santi subiti!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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