Tuesday, December 06, 2005
CAUSE FOR CANONIZATION OF JOHN PAUL II
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Dissident theologians opposed to the beatification of Pope John Paul have issued an appeal urging Catholics critical of the late pope to tell the Vatican if they also think he should not be made a saint.
The 11 Catholic theologians said Church officials who are reviewing John Paul's life and pontificate should also consider the "negative evaluation" liberal critics have of the nearly 27-year-old papacy that ended when John Paul died in April.
The Rome diocese has opened a beatification cause for the Pope. Church officials have asked all Catholics to come forward with personal experiences or evidence of possible miracles that could support a reputation for holiness.
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Not that I think anyone cares, but I have serious reservations about canonizing JPII now. Those reservations are based in the horrible state of the Church after 25+ years of his administration. We are told to judge holiness by fruits, and these scandals are the fruits [no pun intended], as are the innumerable heresies that keep cropping up here and there in places where we should be finding holiness.
Perhaps there were good reasons for his inaction, but please, give them time to come out. Allow time for this scandal to be resolved and to become history. Allow time for orthodoxy to return. Don't canonize the man who should have shouldered the responsibility for order and appeared for all intents and purposes to have shirked it!
If John Paul II had been the president of a corporation in which there was this much disorder, he would have been fired, not lionized. Don't give the dissenters on the right this much more fuel for their fires, because when they light them, those fires will burn brightly with this volitile substance added to the mix.
