"Saint" Carmen's Top Ten

On December 4 of this year, the diocesan phase of Carmen Hernández's canonization process is scheduled to open in the Archdiocese of Madrid.

Since her death in 2016, numerous articles from numerous sources have all written extensively on why Carmen's sanctity is...questionable, at absolute best. The Osservatorio devotes an entire blog category to the subject. Here and here are a couple of examples from The Thoughtful Catholic. This very recent piece from the Osservatorio (not included in the aforementioned category) looks at some of the so-called "miracles" of this "higher category" of saint.

Here, we propose just one short offering, translated from this Osservatorio original from 2017.

The Top Ten Reasons Carmen Should NOT Be Made a Saint

10. Even if the story of her youth is cloaked with a confusing and grandiose halo that makes everything more acceptable, in fact, she was nothing more than a spoiled rich girl with mystical ambitions and a religious novice expelled from her missionary order for disobedience.

9. She boasted of visions not approved by the Church--even insinuating that Our Lady called her "blessed among women"!

8. She contributed to the spread of Protestant and Gnostic heresies by passing them off as Catholic doctrine and, as she publicly stated, she prided herself on "serving the Second Vatican Council on a silver platter" to Kiko, her worthy friend, to act as a support - with the appropriate distortions - for their heretical construction.

7. Together with Kiko Argüello, she is the founder of a schismatic, heretical, and extortionist entity installed within the Catholic Church, persevering in error and completely impervious to the numerous corrections pointed out by the (true) Church.

6. This entity made its way into Vatican circles to the sound of "little gifts" (to friends) and threats (to enemies).

5. This entity is responsible for causing unspeakable suffering to a multitude of souls, directly and indirectly, and in order to preserve the good name of "the Way," it has lent itself to covering up the worst misdeeds of its so-called "catechists" [and even priests and bishops].

4. As a model to follow, she leaves a lot to be desired and her testimony of Christian life is objectively pathetic--from the case of being arrested on a plane because she refused to put out her cigarette, to her public utterances as a sour, disrespectful woman, as numerous stories attest to her chronic indelicacy and absolute lack of empathy with others.

3. She always--even aggressively--discouraged and prevented her "catechists" from any altruistic or solidaristic initiatives that did not concern the Way itself.

2. Her alleged Diaries, published after her death, strongly contrast with the woman she was during life--so much so as to consider the work a deliberately crafted forgery or, alternatively, evidence of a disturbed mind and a dissociated personality.

1. After a life in which she exasperated others by instilling in them a false concept of the importance of accepting "history" as it is, without ever remotely wishing to improve it because this would be pride and rebellion against God, it is really too much to attribute to her any power to grant or promote "graces" of any kind.

The aspiring saint shows her great respect and devotion to the Holy Father as she sports her Adidas gear.

Pray for this woman's eternal soul.