Cover of Pope John Paul III was interested to see a number of articles over the weekend addressing the sainthood (Beatification) process for Pope John Paul II.
After the Polish Pope died, people were calling for immediate sainthood and Pope Benedict did put the process by which people are declared saints on a fast track (much faster than usual) and the process seems to be coming to an end with the late pope’s sainthood to be announced and celebrated in early May.
Everyone agrees that the late Karol Wojtyla was a very popular pope and is remembered for some impressive accomplishments during his long papacy with helping to bring down Communism one of the more important ones.
He was the first Polish pope and he was compared to a “rock star” of popes as he traveled the world, sought communion with other faiths, encouraged young people and was very much admired by people of all faiths.
So with all this admiration and all these great accomplishments, why are some saying HOLD THE HALO!
As proud as I should have been of a Polish pope, I wasn’t really. I was saddened by his lack of progressive thinking on social issues which I expected from a pope that tasted normal life for some time and should have gained some experience as a normal human living on earth and not some immature male that was pushed into a seminary before he has tasted adulthood.
No he smiled a lot but he did not do any deep thinking on contraception, priestly celibacy, ordination of women, divorce and remarriage and just stuck to the old and tired thinking that no longer made sense in the new world.
I could forgive him for his regressive and immature thinking BUT I cannot forgive him for failing to protect hundreds if not thousands of innocent children from molestation by his priests and bishops which was occurring during his watch.
He also supported Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the founder, and known pedophile, of the Legion of Christ which together with Opus Dei were John Paul’s attack dogs against the Jesuits and other progressive theologians and by the way, they also contributed millions to Rome
Some defenders of the pope say he was naïve and maybe duped into inaction against grave sins by his priests but I have to believe that a CEO is responsible for the actions of his workers no matter what and he was the CEO.
Benedict will make him a saint just like he will make Pius XII a saint even though Pius did not speak out against the holocaust during WWII; that is how the Church works, they bury their dirty laundry and the sheep they keep on coming, kneeling and praying to the saints with dirty hands, minds and souls.
Mother Theresa was a saint to me even though at the end, she admitted that there was no God because if there was one, He would never allow all the suffering that exists in the world. Mother Theresa was a human taking care of her fellow humans because she could and she wanted to because that was the right thing to do…John Paul II was no saint.
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