Well, two miracles WERE needed for canonization. Now they're not! In true Neo-Cath style Lombardi brushes away criticism by appealing to the Neo-Cath supreme law: that whatever the Pope does is a-ok. So can a Pope theoretically canonize each of his own family members by fiat when they die? That way they are assured Heaven, right? Canonizations are infallible, and the Pope can canonize whoever he wants and is bound by no rules, so why wouldn't those theoretical canonizations be infallibly valid? What a complete joke. Francis is perfectly exemplifying the neo-ultramontanism of the conciliarists. We are apparently under the supreme rule of Pope Francis and anything he does is correct, every law and tradition of the Church be damned.
Yet when Traditionalists want the Pope to act in their favor..OHHHHH well, we need to send that through this committee, and this other committee, and get the approval of this synod, and then, if the CDF head approves it, then the pope will look at it after 6 advisors make edits to it, and then you MIGHT get 30% of what you want IF you sign this little oath that says you renounce everything you believe in. BTW, we need an answer in 30 days or you're excommunicated. What can we say? The pope's hands are tied!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/06/world/europe/two-former-popes-are-accepted-for-sainthood.html?_r=0&pagewanted=printTwo Former Popes to Be Made SaintsBy RACHEL DONADIO
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis sped two of his predecessors toward sainthood on Friday: John Paul II, who guided the Roman Catholic Church during the end of the cold war, and John XXIII, who assembled the liberalizing Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
In approving the sainthood of John XXIII even without a second miracle attributable to the pontiff, Francis took the rare step of bypassing the Vatican bureaucracy. Francis also said a Vatican committee had accepted the validity of a second miracle attributed to the intercession of John Paul.
The canonization cause for John Paul began almost immediately after his death in 2005. At his funeral, crowds in St. Peter’s Square began shouting “Santo subito,” or “Sainthood now,” for the beloved pontiff.
John Paul was beatified in May 2011, after a Vatican committee credited him with interceding to cure a French nun, Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, of Parkinson’s disease, the same malady from which the pontiff suffered.
The second miracle attributed to John Paul is said to be the healing of a woman who prayed to the pope on the day of his beatification.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, played down the novelty of Francis’s approving the canonization of John XXIII. “There are lots of theologians who in fact discuss the principle of the fact that it’s necessary to have two distinct miracles,” he said. “The pope has the power to rule in a sainthood cause.”
Father Lombardi said it was likely that John Paul and John XXIII would be canonized before the end of the year, although no dates have been set.
At John Paul II’s beatification ceremony, which drew one and a half million people to Rome, Pope Benedict XVI lauded John Paul II as a central figure in the history of the 20th century and a hero of the church.
“He was witness to the tragic age of big ideologies, totalitarian regimes, and from their passing John Paul II embraced the harsh suffering, marked by tension and contradictions, of the transition of the modern age toward a new phase of history, showing constant concern that the human person be its protagonist,” Benedict said at the Mass.
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