What procedure did the canonization miracle of Josemaría Escrivá go through?

🔥The question: “Didn't you use an old skin disease clearing up by itself for a canonization?”

🛡️The Church's answer: The Holy See's official account deals with the case of the Spanish physician Manuel Nevado Rey, who suffered from chronic radiodermatitis and the cancerous lesions that came with it and was healed after asking Escrivá's intercession. A diocesan investigation gathered the testimony and the clinical records, and the medical board of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints reviewed whether this was a rapid, complete, and lasting healing that could not be explained naturally. Theologians and then cardinals and bishops examined its connection with the intercession, after which the Pope approved the decree on the miracle.

📜What the Church has actually recognized: This decree judged the connection between one specific healing and an intercession; it is not a document answering every historical controversy surrounding Opus Dei or Escrivá. Those questions have to be examined with separate sources and separate criteria.

🧐If they press further: “Does becoming a saint mean all of that person's judgments were right?” — No. Canonization is the Church's judgment that the person is with God and can be venerated as a model for Christians; it is not a declaration that everything they said and decided in life was infallible.

✨In one sentence: “Escrivá's canonization miracle is the result of one specific healing reviewed through the medical, theological, and hierarchical stages. It is not a document approving everything he said or everything his organization did.”