Pope Francis has just announced that he will “fast fort ward”
the sainthoods of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II.
The Vatican has some secret criteria for making people
saints which includes the criteria of three people being healed by praying to
the person…really?
The only criteria that should matter to those of this earth
is if that person did something while on this earth that was of great benefit
to the people of this earth or the earth itself.
John XXIII is my favorite because even though he had a short
papal term, the little fat man had vision way beyond the normal Catholic leader
and saw that the Catholic Church needed to change its ways if it was to remain
relevant to the people it served. He initiated Vatican II and the rest is
history.
Pope John Paul II, the first Polish pope, was immensely
popular but that is not enough to make you as saint. The only thing that
distinguished this pope was the fact that he helped and was instrumental in the
downfall of Communism in our world and that was immensely beneficial to the
people that suffered under its yoke.
I am glad he is not pushing the sainthood of Pope Pius XII
who was pope during WWII and known as the Nazi pope because the man has too
many questions associated with his reign and most of those are negative; he did
not do enough to protect the Jews from the Nazis.
So far Francis is right on…
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