Talk:List of Servants of God

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Proposed merger

I propose that Candidates for Sainthood be merged into this article, List of Servants of God. They are essentially the same topic. The former article is newly created and has been worked on, and is much more extensive than the current state of this one. So this one, which is under the proper name, would stand to benefit from merging. Elizium23 (talk) 21:05, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. List of Servants of God leads naturally to List of venerated Catholics, which leads naturally to List of beatified people, which leads naturally to List of Catholic saints. (No, I don't like some of those titles either. They are inconsistent in format.) On the contrary, Candidates for Sainthood ought to be a broad concept article explaining the process, not an incomplete and duplicative list of people partway through the process. Narky Blert (talk) 23:06, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The article Sanctification exists; but IMO Sanctification#Roman Catholicism is out-and-out incomplete and misleading, and screams WP:POV. Narky Blert (talk) 23:13, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Closing the merge proposal given opposition and no support. Klbrain (talk) 00:21, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from article to its proper place here (someone else's statement)

"If you last edited on 1st August, 2016, there is a omission that is "Hon. Helena of Gonawila" was titled as "Servant of God" on 10th June 2016. We got the letter from Congregation for Causes of Saints. She was a Sri Lankan, Lay Virgin, born, lived, Got Stigmatism , died and buried at Gonawila, Sri Lanka(It is in CHILAW Diocese Sri Lanka.) Thank you Make the correction.pl." (Someone else's statement.) Freddiem (talk) 07:33, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

One Catholic man's response

The term Candidates for Sainthood could mean several things. It could mean a mere inquiry by the Congregation for Causes of Saints for a person with no current official status, or it could a Servant of God, a Venerable, or a Blessed. Therefore, I agree that the article, Candidates for Sainthood should at least not exist with that name unless it also includes Venerables and Blesseds. If it is true that Candidates for Sainthood only contains Servants of God, then it should be merged into Servants of God. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmckenna001 (talk • contribs) 15:57, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmckenna001: speaking as an atheist, I think that you're absolutely right. A distinction needs to be made between the process (or, cause), and people at their various stages through that process or cause. See my vote and reasoning above Narky Blert (talk) 23:04, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]