The De Gasperi Method

An Italian politician might soon become a saint. The jokes write themselves. A politician? From Italy? But it’s true. The Archdiocese of Trento in northern Italy announced this spring that it has concluded the first phase of the canonization process for a native son, Alcide De Gasperi. This included assembling twenty-two thousand documents, all now resting in twenty-three boxes at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in Rome.