John Paul II: Canonising Popes Is “More About Ecclesial Politics than Sanctity”
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Time is needed to examine any person’s life, Reese explains. John Paul II reduced the waiting period from 50 to five years, Benedict XVI waived even this for John Paul’s beatification.
Canonsations of Popes are a “special problem” for Reese because they are “more about ecclesial politics than sanctity” and opposing them “is portrayed as disloyalty.”
Supposing that saints are models to imitate, he asks, “How can anyone who is not pope really model him after a pope — unless he is a cardinal who wants to be a pope?”
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