This news is terrible, though not really unexpected. First the so-called "beatification" of John Paul II, and now this? Was not the cause for Montini's "canonization" halted? I seem to recall that a good book thoroughly refuted such a notion. Alas...
I wonder what sort of uproar this will cause, if any...
Yes the book was "Paul VI... Beatified? by Fr. Luigi Villa, just passed away November 18, 2012.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him. Amen.
Just a quote from a short biography "Who is Father Luigi Villa? by Dr. Franco Adessa, to be found here (
http://www.chiesaviva.com/donluigivilla%20ing.pdf), sold at the Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success (google for website)
In 1971, Fr. Villa founded his Review “Chiesa viva,” with correspondents and collaborators in all continents. The first issues were released on the date September, 1971. A few months later, in Vienna, on December 14, 1971, Father Luigi had a personal encounter with Card. Joseph Mindszenty who, after having been humiliated and degraded by Paul VI, for not accepting to reach out to Communism, left Rome. The Cardinal read the entire first issue of “Chiesa viva” and was so enthusiastic that he put his signature on the copy he had read. At the end of the meeting, after two and a half hours of a passionate and enlightening interview, he told Father Villa: «Believe me, Paul VI delivered entire Christian Countries into the hands of Communism ... »