Why not to canonize Pope Francis?

Now that Pope Francis is no more and that he is laid to rest, the topic of his canonisation is doing the rounds. And I have serious objections to that!!! 

The main issue is that Francis did nothing extraordinary. He merely did and lived as he actually professed to live – as a pastor. And if we start canonising people for merely doing what we choose to do, what’s the relevance of ‘canonisation’? We cannot afford to make living as one is supposed to be, a criteria for sainthood. By making someone a saint for doing and being what one is supposed to do and be, we are subconsciously normalising substandard living, or making corrupt, lethargic life as acceptable and the regular mode of life. 

Another downside of making someone a saint is that he/she is exalted, his/her photos and statues erected, novenas recited, prayed to and all that stuff… except emulated! Unconsciously, we put him/her up so high that imitating that person’s lifestyle and living by that person’s attitudes is considered as beyond liveable.