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Does anyone here suppose there could be saints among the leadership of today's democracies?

When reading the lists of royal saints, I was struck by how many kings, queens, and other titled nobility have been saints or blesseds, even monarchs as recent as Charles I of Austria being a blessed and Nicholas II of Russia being a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Is there something about the rule of law that prevents modern-day heads of states or other politicians from being candidates for formal recognition of sainthood? I suppose I could imagine, for example, a former president becoming a saint through great acts of Christian virtue, but in office? It's unthinkable. Take for example, Roosevelt, Churchill, and De Gaulle, almost universally recognized as great men, but definitely not saints.

It just seems to me that democracy is predisposed to worldly people.