JPII canonized more people that all the previous popes put together. I think B-16 is a close second, though he had a higher canonization rate.
I think all the canonizations are a smoke screen to canonize their own, like John XXIII and JPII were canonized. By their deeds you shall know them.
Yet one more proof that they were anti-popes.
The real Church produces saints; a facsimile won't be very convincing if it doesn't seem to.
Add to that what it means to be a canonized saint, what it implies, what
obligations it imposes on others and you get a horrid situation where, for example, you are venerating someone who is an exemplar for Satanism being presented as one who is holy.
But no, most people whip out the old canard of, "It just means they're in Heaven!"
No, that is not all that it means.
Example? What I "learned" from Assisi:
1. I should offer aid and support to someone of another "faith" to practice theirs
2. The gods of the pagans not only aren't devils, but their prayers are efficacious.
3. I not only can, but really should pray
with them, just like "Good old JP2".
4. It isn't apostasy to do so.
5. If there is "one true faith", then it
cannot be Catholic.
6. .*. to say that it doesn't matter if you're Catholic isn't correct; it is
foolish to be Catholic when we could, for example, blaze our brains out, fornicate, and trip on peyote all the way to Heaven. Catholicism then = masochism. Redemptive suffering = stupid which then says what of the Most Holy Cross of Christ Jesus? Why all the pain when we can party? Hey, we're supposed to be joyful, right?
"Did God
really say...?"
etc., etc., ad nauseam.
"The son does as he sees..."
It does no good to make "theological" protestations either, for Joe and Jane McSixpack already got the "wrong" message via "Saint" JP2 and his successors in perfidy.
No? Have you seen the "Church" lately?
"Lex orandi..."
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