...because, to anyone who's studied the history of the Church since the 19th century, it's perfectly obvious that it has more to do with politics of papal infallability than it has to do with a genuine discernment of some candidate's sanctity. The ability to canonise is, in the Roman tradition, the peculiar prerogative of the papacy--so much so that the OTHER ways of arriving at this conclusion (a local, popular cult; a initiative of a local diocese, etc.) are being completely discarded so that the Roman Church may become even more of a papal monarchy. The Roman Church is actually morphing into something it never was, even in my youth. And it's the fantastically ignorant, most "Protestantized" of all Catholics--the Americans--who are the most ignorant of it, and the most enthusiastic about it. It's the victory of media culture over orthodox Christianity. We can't even recognized how indecorous, how bad-mannered it is, here.