It may be Pope John Paul’s cannon-happy legacy that’s now holding up his own path to “sainthood.” This from the Washington Post article, “Charting a Path to Sainthood“:
John Paul, who canonized more people than any pope in history — 482 — has entered the system just as it is slowing. In February, the Vatican issued a document calling for the consideration process to be followed more stringently, apparently responding to worries that perhaps John Paul’s numbers were too high. … In his three years as pope, Benedict has canonized just 14. Although he has said he favors John Paul being named a saint, he has not exercised his right to make it happen immediately.
PS – A simple scan of the term “saint” in Scripture makes clear that each genuine Christian is a true saint. And death is no prerequisite for “sainthood” (2 Thessalonians 1:10).
Tony Reinke 
Well, I suppose we must contrast the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints with Evangelicalism’s Ecclesiastical Amnesia.
A simple scan of the average “saint” in the evangelical church makes clear that most genuine Christians are truly ignorant of the true saints.
So, critique the Romans as we may with respect to the stratification of the faithful, the flowering of our own saintliness will suffer if we do not learn from our Roman brothers to think often upon the Great Cloud of Witnesses.
May 29th was the Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. Few Evangelicals would know that. For me, however, it made me stop and think about the great price paid by my fathers and brothers in the faith for the purity of the Gospel.
A few feast days in the Evangelical Church might snap us out of our frightful self-preoccupation.
TB
I grieve with the Lord to think that many people who don’t know the Gospel can only think of sainthood in terms of a bestowed title. But God counts it as precious and holy in His sight that His children would count their lives as loss in the image of Jesus alone, the grace-victory message of the Good News.
The Psalms say, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones.” My own hope with the Lord is that at my death, people will talk less about the accomplishments I made in my life and more about the God who has dealt abundantly with His people, even a chief of sinners like me. May the Lord’s holiness and grace abounding with His people be testified this upcoming Sabbath day.