The Challenges of Black Elk's Canonization

Black Elk began as a Lakota warrior, and he talked about how happy he was as a boy after killing and scalping cavalry soldiers at the Little Bighorn. He also reportedly acknowledged killing soldiers and wanting to kill more after wounded knee. Some people in Rome have gotten squeamish on the subject of violence, and it's resulted in problems for other causes. For example, there is the cause of the Marinol father Vincent Capadano, popularly known as the Grunt Padre because he served as a chaplain in the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. In 2022, a panel of theological advisors asked the decastory for the causes of saints to suspend Father Cap