To be honest, I don't know what it would mean to rehabilitate a twelfth century Archbishop.
What kind of saint could he become?
Surely not a religious saint when religiosity is declining and sainthood is suspect. Not a secular saint either, for he doesn't have the marks of 21st century secular sainthood: lack of ego, public spirit, concern for justice etc.
The only option I can see: his resistance to state power and unwillingness to escape his fate brings him close to Socrates, so perhaps there's that route. If only he had a great prose stylist as a student.
Of the various Catholic halomakers I know (and I don't many, being neither a Catholic nor a saint), only St. Francis comes across as a straightforward candidate for contemporary sainthood.
Even the very highest levels of human achievement are historically conditioned and might appear to later generations as idolatry.
What kind of saint could he become?
Surely not a religious saint when religiosity is declining and sainthood is suspect. Not a secular saint either, for he doesn't have the marks of 21st century secular sainthood: lack of ego, public spirit, concern for justice etc.
The only option I can see: his resistance to state power and unwillingness to escape his fate brings him close to Socrates, so perhaps there's that route. If only he had a great prose stylist as a student.
Of the various Catholic halomakers I know (and I don't many, being neither a Catholic nor a saint), only St. Francis comes across as a straightforward candidate for contemporary sainthood.
Even the very highest levels of human achievement are historically conditioned and might appear to later generations as idolatry.