Should any pope be canonized as a saint? (Part of PBS - program "Religion & Ethics")

from an April 25, 2014 Show topic : Q: Should any pope be canonized? KEVIN ECKSTROM (Religion News Service): Well, it’s a good question. In the first thousand years of the church, about 80, 85 popes were made saints. In the next 900 years, just three. So now, seven of the last ten dead popes are in process of being made saints in some degree or another. And so there’s this renewed push now to make popes into saints, and that’s not always how it was done in the church. KIM LAWTON: Some people say saints are supposed to be models for real people, and so who can a pope model for except for another pope? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2014/04/25/april-25-2014-canonization-of-pope-john-paul-ii-and-john-xxiii/22918/