Saints Oscar Romero and Paul VI

I am not happy, I am giddy with Joy to learn that Mother Church will canonize Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Oscar Romero this coming October. To declare both saints at the same time is a strike of genius: these each represent (in my opinion) the two primary challenges presented to our Church in my adulthood, (1965 - 2018 and counting), solidarity with the poor and defense of marriage, family, spousal fidelity and the chastity of our youth. In a fine article (https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/03/12/new-saints-paul-vi-and-oscar-romero/) Robert Royal honors both men even as he acknowledges their flaws and failings. He describes the Hamlet-like indecision of Pope Paul but sees that at the end of the day, with Humanae Vitae, he is at once hero and martyr and prophet. I was interested to learn that Romero suffered psychologically from his mission and found comfort in counseling. I was especially delighted to learn that he visited Pope John Paul for comfort as I had always assumed that the suspicion John Paul (and Benedict as well) had for Liberation Theology had clouded their view of him as well. With these two October canonizations, we will be able to exult in the lives of these two who lived in our time, suffered deeply from the conflicts and confusions of our age, and yet witnessed in their specific and complementary ways to Gospel Truth!