Pope Chasing World Record

Pope To Canonize First Brazilian

Pope Benedict is well on his way to a world canonizing record if he can keep up his current pace. On Friday he will canonize Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao, Brazil’s first native-born saint. Despite the fact that there is much skepticism about Galvao’s miracles, there’s just no stopping this new Pope.

For the record, a saint needs to have two proven miracles to join the club. A health expert at the hospital where one of the “miracles” occurred says that, regardless of any saintly intervention, the child in question had a 50% chance of surviving.