Lombardi serves as the postulator for the beatification and canonization cause of Father Bernardo Mattio. Popes have considerable authority to delay or fast track causes for beatification and canonization. Some Catholics opposed his beatification and canonization for the above reasons. See both its immemorial right of canonization and that of beatification. See both the right of canonization and that of beatification. Some Catholic theologians disagreed with the call for beatification of Pope John Paul II. She was both the first Beatification and the last Canonisation under Pope Benedict XVI. The first step toward his beatification was allowed by Pope Leo XIII in 1886. He attended the beatification of Pope Paul VI in October 2014. The beatification of St. Teresa Benedicta as a martyr generated criticism. In 2007, he set a Church record by approving the beatification of 498 Spanish Martyrs. The Italian government had since 1878 strongly opposed beatification of Pius IX. This was the first beatification to be held outside Vatican City. Diaz was invited to the beatification ceremony. Vietnamese Catholics reacted positively to the news of the beatification.