NEAT: Amy Welborn on these Spanish bishops' attempt to canonize Queen Isabella despite a few character flaws:

She kicked out the Jews, banned the Muslims, provoked genocide in Latin America and, to cap it all, set the Inquisition loose on her Spanish countrymen - but now, 500 years later, Spain's bishops want Queen Isabella, "La Catolica", made a saint.
The country's Roman Catholic bishops' congress has argued that, despite a fondness for burnings at the stake and an obsession with religious and racial purity, Isabella I of Castille should be beatified as a step towards canonisation.

The genocide thing is of course a little over the top --it's blaming Isabella for her people's germs-- but still. Amy has words on the double standards of making you a saint or not: if you're a sex offender, you're screwed; if you're a murderous politician history made you do it. Well great.