Käthe Kollwitz, "Mothers" ("Mutter"), 1919, lithograph in Princeton University Art Museum
John Allen and Thomas Reese appear not to understand what it means for the Catholic church to declare someone a saint — as it did so with reckless speed when Pope John Paul II was canonized immediately after his death, to the consternation of not a few Catholics who thought that John Paul's papal legacy was more than a little mixed.
