“It’s a beautiful thing that for the first time in history you can see a saint dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweatshirt. That’s a great message,” Father Carlos Acácio Gonçalves Ferreira, the shrine’s rector, said at the time. A Franciscan monk based at the tomb, noted that “many young people” were visiting.
Now get rid of the homophobia, sex abuse scandals, sexism, and anti-choice bullshit, mmkay?
The Catholic Church gets final say to what a miracle is and who becomes a saint. They prefer “false negatives” to “false positives” because their reputation could be compromised. As a result, the investigation is surprisingly rigorous. A ⅔ majority of diverse doctors, including atheists, must agree that there is no possible medical explanation.
There is a recent video by Half as Interesting about this, and many other sources. Please don’t bother me with this; I’m not comfortable defending the church I have happily exited.