PopeWatch: Golden Age?
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ever consider that modern technology and communication has made it easier to gather information and assess it. That plays a big role in gathering data relevant to miracles performed by potential Saints and Blesseds. Can we not start rubbishing the Churches Saints. Please (Popes or not Popes).
It is true that modern technology has made it easier to gather and assess information. But that’s not the real issue here. Otherwise, Pius XII should have been canonized a long time ago. I would say he was more deserving of being raised to the altars than every post VCII pope, including John Paul II. The biggest controversy surrounding his pontificate was his actions during the holocaust and not only can we prove he was not culpable, but in fact heroic. The same cannot be said with regard to JPII’s association with Maciel. We simply do not know one way or the other.
The way the canonization process is conducted today, particularly with regard to recent popes,does more in practice to foster cults of personality than real devotion. This only serves to tarnish the canonization process.
Adulation of cults of personality masquerading as piety and devotion is all too prevalent in orthodox Catholic circles and it must stop!
Feh.
Mud sticks Greg.
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“Mud sticks Greg”
Pave the Way Foundation was formed by Gary Krups a Jewish convert to Catholicsm to clear the mud from Pope Pius XII after “Hitler’s Pope”, and “The Deputy”. Pope Pius XII ordered all the seminaries and convents to hide Jewish people even at the cost of death. 800,000 Jewish were given fake baptismal certificates so that Duvalier would allow them entrance to Haiti. Pius XII resigned the papacy in case Hitler kidnapped Him. Servant of the servants of God. Pope Pius XII was there every All Saints Day.
Interesting Mary. Thanks for sharing.