A World War II candidate who might be named saint by the Catholic Church was Father Titus Brandsma, died in a Dachau chamber, refusing to retract his anti-Nazi views.

In the Roman Catholic Church, saints are made, not born. Since 1588, when Rome first established strict procedures for canonization, the Congregation of Rites has declared that 211 men and women are, as far as man knows, in the company of God in heaven. Only one is an American, Mother…