And sometimes it's difficult, even for a saint, to rise completely above the world around him.
What I mean by that --
What if we had a saint living today (not too far-fetched!) and he or she were canonized in 2040. Let's call her St. Melissa.
Perhaps St. Melissa had 3 children. Being a humble housewife, she trusted the doctors of her time, who advised 30 vaccinations before age 3.
She was holy for various reasons, but she wasn't held up by the Church as an example of a woman who understood the world and its goings-on. On the contrary, she was canonized because she had a strong prayer life, raised her children to be good Catholics even though her husband left her, she had to work 2 jobs, yet she still homeschooled, etc.
So someone 50 years from now could say "Look at this! We have a saint -- St. Melissa -- who allowed her children to be damaged physically! One of them was sterilized, which we know today is because of the vaccines he received. We all know today how bad vaccines are. This St. Melissa had her children get ALL the vaccines they recommended! Even the ones that used aborted fetal tissue! You can't tell me that it's not sinful to harm yourself or another by injecting aluminum, squalene, foreign DNA, mercury, MSG, and heavy metals into your body..."
Matthew