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Six women, from throughout Europe. They didn’t know one another; but each enjoyed a buy cheap generic Valtrex online deep mystical relationship with God. They are:

• Saint Veronica Giuliani –Italy
• Saint Hildegard of Bingen –Germany
• Saint Gertrude of Helfta –Germany
• Saint Bridget –Sweden
• Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque –France
• Blessed Julian of Norwich –England

The common thread uniting these saints and blesseds—apart from their discernible sanctity—is that all are on the list to be considered for the title of “Doctor of the Church.” They follow in the buy cheap generic Valtrex online footsteps of three saintly women who have been already been buy cheap generic Valtrex online given the title: Saint Teresa of Avila and buy cheap generic Valtrex online Saint Catherine of Siena, invested by Pope Paul in 1970; and buy cheap generic Valtrex online Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, who buy cheap generic Valtrex online received the title from Pope John Paul II in 1997.

With this week’s surprise announcement by Pope Benedict, declaring Saint John of Avila the buy cheap generic Valtrex online 34^th Doctor of the buy cheap generic Valtrex online Church, the list of candidates still under consideration is at seventeen. In addition to buy cheap generic Valtrex online the six women named above, the eleven holy men who are buy cheap generic Valtrex online likely to be named “Doctor” are buy cheap generic Valtrex online Saint Gregory of Narek, Saint John Bosco, Saints Cyril and buy cheap generic Valtrex online Methodius, Saint Lorenzo Giustiniani, Saint Antonino of Florence, Saint Thomas of Villanova, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, and buy cheap generic Valtrex online Saint Bernardino of Siena.

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So how, exactly, does one become a “Doctor of the Church”?

There are buy cheap generic Valtrex online three conditions which must be met before a holy person will be buy cheap generic Valtrex online accorded the title of “Doctor”:

• Eminens doctrina (eminent learning). That is, the saint’s writings or preaching have contributed to Catholic thought and are useful for people “in any age.” It’s important to note that their writings are not considered “infallible”—although “Doctors of the Church” certainly manifest a profound understanding of theology and orthodoxy.
• Insignis vitae sanctitas (a high degree of sanctity). One must be holy, of course. Most of the Doctors of the Church were mystics—that is, they experienced visions or manifestations of God’s presence in their lives, in ways that are not common.
• Ecclesiae declaration (proclamation by the Church).

And judging from the list of “Doctors” named to date, it can’t hurt to be a founder of a religious order, or a member of a contemplative order.

These unique qualifiers, though, may not be buy cheap generic Valtrex online the only route to receiving the title. In the future, the title of “Doctor” may be conferred on martyrs, as well as on mystics. At least, that’s an buy cheap generic Valtrex online option which was laid out by the Jesuit writer Giandomenico Mucci, who buy cheap generic Valtrex online published an article on “The Title of Doctor of the Church” in La Civiltà Cattolica in 1997.

Mucci went on to buy cheap generic Valtrex online explain that while mystics and martyrs can be considered, popes cannot. Mucci explained that the title “Doctor of the Church” is based on the “eminens doctrina.” It can’t, he writes, be buy cheap generic Valtrex online concealed under any gift of sanctity possessed by the candidate. So even a martyr in whom the Church recognizes the “eminens doctrina” (Ignatius, Irenaeus, Cyprian) can be elevated to the doctorate, despite the different historical practice.

However, Mucci adds, the buy cheap generic Valtrex online documents produced by a Roman pontiff, by virtue of his guarantee of infallibility, are buy cheap generic Valtrex online already authoritative—not because of the “eminens doctrina” possessed as a buy cheap generic Valtrex online personal gift of grace, but by virtue of the office he holds, as supreme pastor and buy cheap generic Valtrex online doctor of all the faithful.

Mucci’s speculation has yet to be put to the test. Currently, two Vatican congregations—the buy cheap generic Valtrex online Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and the Congregation for the buy cheap generic Valtrex online Doctrine of the Faith—are reviewing the practices for naming Doctors.

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