Editing Pope Benedict XVI (section)

==== Beatifications ====
{{see also|List of people beatified by Pope Benedict XVI|date= May 2024}}
During his pontificate, Benedict{{nbsp}}XVI beatified 870 people. On 9 May 2005, Benedict{{nbsp}}XVI began the [[beatification]] process for his predecessor, Pope John Paul{{nbsp}}II. Normally, five years must pass after a person's death before the beatification process can begin. However, in an audience with Benedict, [[Camillo Ruini]], vicar general of the [[Diocese of Rome]] and the official responsible for promoting the [[canonization|cause for canonization]] of any person who dies within that diocese, cited "exceptional circumstances" which suggested that the waiting period could be waived. (This had happened before, when Pope Paul{{nbsp}}VI waived the five-year rule and announced beatification processes for two of his own predecessors, [[Pope Pius&nbsp;XII]] and [[Pope John&nbsp;XXIII]]. Benedict{{nbsp}}XVI followed this precedent when he waived the five-year rule for John Paul{{nbsp}}II.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/csaints/documents/rc_con_csaints_doc_20050509_rescritto-gpii_en.html |title=Response of His Holiness Benedict XVI for the examination of the cause for beatification and canonization of the Servant of God John Paul II |publisher=Vatican.va |date=9 May 2005 |access-date=2 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110181753/https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/csaints/documents/rc_con_csaints_doc_20050509_rescritto-gpii_en.html |archive-date=10 November 2011}}</ref>) The decision was announced on 13 May 2005, the Feast of [[Our Lady of Fátima]] and the 24th anniversary of the attempt on John Paul{{nbsp}}II's life.<ref>{{cite news |author=Drummer, Alexander |url=http://www.zenit.org/article-13001?l=english |title=Waiting Period Waived for John Paul II |agency=Zenit News Agency |date=13 May 2005 |access-date=24 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001064726/http://www.zenit.org/article-13001?l=english |archive-date=1 October 2012}}</ref> John Paul{{nbsp}}II often credited Our Lady of Fátima for preserving him on that day. Cardinal Ruini inaugurated the diocesan phase of the cause for beatification in the Lateran Basilica on 28 June 2005.<ref>{{cite news |author=Drummer, Alexander |url=http://www.zenit.org/article-13422?l=english |title=John Paul II's Cause for Beatification Opens |agency=Zenit News Agency |date=28 June 2005 |access-date=24 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607233645/http://www.zenit.org/article-13422?l=english |archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref>

The first beatification under the new pope was celebrated on 14 May 2005, by [[José Cardinal Saraiva Martins]], Cardinal Prefect of the [[Congregation for the Causes of Saints]]. The new Blesseds were [[Marianne Cope]] and [[Ascensión Nicol Goñi]]. Cardinal [[Clemens August Graf von Galen]] was beatified on 9 October 2005. [[Mariano de la Mata]] was beatified in November 2006 and [[Rosa Eluvathingal]] was beatified on 3 December of that year, and [[Basil Moreau]] was beatified in September 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.holycrossusa.org/spirituality/our-founder-blessed-basil-moreau-csc/ |title=Our Founder |publisher=Congregation of Holy Cross |date=24 August 2011 |access-date=8 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016095517/http://www.holycrossusa.org/spirituality/our-founder-blessed-basil-moreau-csc/ |archive-date=16 October 2011}}</ref> In October 2008, the following beatifications took place: [[Maria Anna Donati|Celestine of the Mother of God]], Giuseppina Nicoli, Hendrina Stenmanns, Maria Rosa Flesch, Marta Anna Wiecka, [[Michael Sopocko]], [[Petrus Kibe Kasui and 187 Companions]], [[Candelaria of San José|Susana Paz-Castillo Ramírez]], and Maria Isbael Salvat Romero.

On 19 September 2010, during his [[State visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom|visit to the United Kingdom]], Benedict personally proclaimed the beatification of [[John Henry Newman]].<ref name="Beatification">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11360529|title=Pope beatifies Cardinal Newman as his UK tour ends (with video clip)|work=BBC News|date=19 September 2010}}</ref>

Unlike his predecessor, Benedict delegated the beatification liturgical service to a cardinal. On 29 September 2005, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued a communiqué announcing that henceforth beatifications would be celebrated by a representative of the pope, usually the prefect of that Congregation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/csaints/documents/rc_con_csaints_doc_20050929_comunicato_en.html |title=Communiqué on beatification process |publisher=Vatican.va |date=29 September 2005 |access-date=2 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103085410/https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/csaints/documents/rc_con_csaints_doc_20050929_comunicato_en.html |archive-date=3 November 2011}}</ref>