John Paul Put on Fast Track for Sainthood

[Horse with no Name]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051300371.html?sub=AR


By NICOLE WINFIELD
The Associated Press
Friday, May 13, 2005; 6:51 PM

VATICAN CITY -- The new pope placed John Paul II on an unprecedented fast track for sainthood Friday and named San Francisco's archbishop to be the church's guardian of doctrine _ the highest Vatican office ever held by an American.

Pope Benedict XVI's decision to waive the five-year waiting period for beatification procedures for John Paul came just six weeks after the pope's death.
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The announcement came on the 24th anniversary of the 1981 assassination attempt on John Paul in St. Peter's Square by a Turkish gunman. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said the timing was an "eloquent" testimony to the late pope's holiness.

The only other time the waiting period was waived was for Mother Teresa _ a step taken by John Paul himself a year after her death in 1997. She was beatified in 2003.

[Roland99]

1. One of his "miracles"? Surviving the assassination attempt.

I shit you not. Heard that on the news this morning.

[kenny blankenship]

2. I've heard of grade inflation but

this takes the biscuiit!
Sainthood?

[stepnw1f]

3. Sainthood? I Don't Think So...

I'd say the Church is losing too many followers and trying a little too hard to impress.

[jean]

4. one more miracle:JP had the patience of a saint, in not slapping gwb silly

during his last papal visit.



(Or, as bush said in that joke from yesterday, during his visit to the popecy. The Great Pontoon.)

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