Pope Paul VI is nearing sainthood status
Pope Benedict XVI has moved Pope Paul VI closer to sainthood by acknowledging his predecessor’s “heroic virtues.”
Paul VI, who guided the Catholic Church through a tumultuous period of change in the 1960s and ’70s and is now considered venerable in the Catholic Church, needs the Vatican to recognize a miracle due to his intercession in order to be beatified, or declared blessed. Recognition of a second miracle would then elevate him to sainthood.