Pope John Paul II to be beatified on May 1st

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Pope Benedict XVI on Friday attributed a miracle to the late Pope John Paul II, which moves the former pontiff one step closer to sainthood.
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Benedict declared Friday that the cure of a French nun who suffered from Parkinson’s disease was a miracle.
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John Paul is expected to be beatified in Rome on May 1. He needs a second miracle attributed to him in order to be made a saint.
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John Paul II died in 2005 after almost 27 years in his role. He was succeeded by Benedict.
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cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/14/pope-john-paul-sainthood.html
 
May 1st will be a good day. You can pray to the beatified for intercession, right? (I’m a recent convert, so the finer points I am still shaky on) What’s the next step for canonization?
 
ZDHayden said:
May 1st will be a good day. You can pray to the beatified for intercession, right? (I’m a recent convert, so the finer points I am still shaky on) What’s the next step for canonization?
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Sure, you can pray for the intercession of the ‘Beatus’ (that’s the masculine ‘technical’ term for a Blessed, FYI). For now, it’s only privately-once the ceremony takes place, it can be done publicly (of course, it depends on where he can be publicly honored).

The next step for canonization is the investigation, and then approval, of another miracle.
 
I just learned that May 1st this year is the Feast of Divine Mercy. The Vatican definitely planned such beautiful symbolism! What better day could the beatification of John Paul II be on?
 
I am so excited. When I found out, I was in tears. I called my parish and my husband and let them know 🙂 And go figure, today is my 23rd b-day! What a wonderful headline for today.:harp:😃
 
These news made me so happy today. Now I can choose Pope John Paul II as my confirmation patron saint! This has been a wish of mine from the beginning because I wouldn’t have found the faith and the Church without him but I never thought that his beatification would be in time (my confirmation is is June). 🙂
 
dizzy_dave said:
Why?:confused:
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A number of reasons, but this for starters:

He showed very little understanding of the scandals that have harmed the Church so much and displayed no compassion for the victims of predators among the clergy. He point blank refused to meet victims on several occasions and was clearly more concerned with protecting priests than with getting to the truth. He protected the notorious Marcial Maciel in the face of convincing evidence of his depravity and against the counsel of then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
 
Yellow_Belle said:
A number of reasons, but this for starters:

He showed very little understanding of the scandals that have harmed the Church so much and displayed no compassion for the victims of predators among the clergy. He point blank refused to meet victims on several occasions and was clearly more concerned with protecting priests than with getting to the truth. He protected the notorious Marcial Maciel in the face of convincing evidence of his depravity and against the counsel of then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
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Certainly he has had more than his share of criticism for things he has done, from kissing a copy of the Koran and allowing an ecumenical prayer conference in Assisi to his stance on child abuse.

So, for that matter, have many of the saints - our own Australian St Mary Mackillop was in fact excommunicated for several months. The saints are very much human and had their imperfections just like the rest of us. It doesn’t preclude them from being saints.

Remember, too, that when someone is beatified it isn’t just human Church leaders speaking. God directly indicates His choice in the form of miracles, which are heavily scrutinised and investigated as this recent one was which has lead to JP2’s beatification.

A cure of Parkinson’s disease? I’ve certainly never heard any suggestion that such a thing could occur naturally. And it seems most appropriate that JP2, who suffered from the disease himself, would take pity and intercede for this poor sufferer.
 
LilyM said:
So, for that matter, have many of the saints - our own Australian St Mary Mackillop was in fact excommunicated for several months.
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Actually Mary Mackillop was NOT legally excommunicated and therefore, technically, not excommunicated at all. And, in any case, that was never an obstacle to her sainthood.

This rush to make John Paul II a saint is as unwise as it is unseemly, IMO.
 
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