Will an American pope mean a wave of new American saints?

Here are a few of the many Americans whose causes could be fast-tracked under the first American pope.

The announcement of a new pope is often followed by canonizations of saints from the pope’s home country - either because the new pontiff has a personal affinity for a particular individual whose cause for canonization is open, or because the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints moves a little more quickly in processing those causes.

There are dozens of Am…