Pope Paul VI to be Beatified in October

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The Vatican has recognised a supposed miracle attributed to Paul VI’s intercession and will beatify the late Italian pope in October, a Vatican source said on Tuesday.
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According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the apparent miracle identified by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints was the healing of an unborn baby from an otherwise incurable illness.
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ANSA said the beatification could occur on 19 October after the synod of bishops’ meeting.
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patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2014/05/reports-paul-vi-to-be-beatified-in-october/
 
I have a serious, non confrontational question. Why is it that every post VII pope is canonized, whereas before it was extremely rare? Were popes before any less holy?
Plus, didn’t Paul VI sit over the most widespread revolt in Church history?
Don’t mean to sound like a debby downer, just seems odd.
 
NorthTexan88 said:
I have a serious, non confrontational question. Why is it that every post VII pope is canonized, whereas before it was extremely rare? Were popes before any less holy?
Plus, didn’t Paul VI sit over the most widespread revolt in Church history?
Don’t mean to sound like a debby downer, just seems odd.
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Its actually an excellent question because about 5-10 years ago I was looking at the list of the Popes and I discovered something that really stood out. Only 1 Pope was a Canonized Saint since Trent! It was of course Pius X. Now it has tripled. Regarding your question about every Post Vatican II Pope being Canonized is because the council is only 50 years old and one Pope (JPII) occupied half of that time period.

As for other Popes not being canonized I think people need to pray to them and those who are suffering incurable diseases should be praying to them for healing. If we don’t pray, they don’t get canonized.
 
Canonization’s are infallible acts of the Church, not something to be questioned.

It is uncouth and unbecoming of a Catholic to question the wisdom of Christ’s Church.

As another poster stated- if one feels called to devotion of a particular pontiff pray to them and ask for their intervention.

Pray, pay, and obey. . . . . .
 
ringil said:
Canonization’s are infallible acts of the Church, not something to be questioned.

It is uncouth and unbecoming of a Catholic to question the wisdom of Christ’s Church.

As another poster stated- if one feels called to devotion of a particular pontiff pray to them and ask for their intervention.

Pray, pay, and obey. . . . . .
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It is not incorrect to observe that, after centuries of no papal canonizations, it has come to seem that being at least considered to become beatified/canonized has almost an “automatic” aura about it, from Pius XII onward. And this is not meant in an way to be a criticism of the most recent canonizations.
 
What’s the latest blog title on Catholic Answers? “…the Courage to Act Alone.” That strikes me as a fitting description of Pope Paul VI. I don’t know too much about him, but from the little I’ve learned, I admire his conviction under fire.
 
More info on the miracle from RomeReports:
The case involves a 5-month-old baby who was inexplicably cured in the womb. The mother’s amniotic sac burst open, and doctors told her that her baby would have serious birth defects, perhaps even die. The woman refused an abortion and prayed to Pope Montini. The baby was born at 8 months completely healthy. The healing took place in 2001 in the US.
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youtube.com/watch?v=jLA-eqdSmO4
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
It is not incorrect to observe that, after centuries of no papal canonizations, it has come to seem that being at least considered to become beatified/canonized has almost an “automatic” aura about it, from Pius XII onward. And this is not meant in an way to be a criticism of the most recent canonizations.
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Your observation is correct.

Furthermore, the miracle thing is not really necessary to advance the canonization process as the Pope can define a saint without any justification at all.
 
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This is getting ridiculous.
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I lived though PaulVI and all that. I don’t understand all the rush to canonize recent popes. Now if a pope was like say St.Vincent de Paul, or St.John Bosco,etc. I wouldn’t say anything.
It’s not like any of them turned part of the papal palace into a hospital for the poor, like St.Louis Strattman turned a part of the family mansion into a hosptial.In Hungary he’s known as the doctor of the poor. Or they did like St.Katherine Drexel who used the Drexel banking fortune to help blacks and native americans and even founded a religious order,the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrement to minister to them.
 
HollyDolly said:
I lived though PaulVI and all that. I don’t understand all the rush to canonize recent popes. Now if a pope was like say St.Vincent de Paul, or St.John Bosco,etc. I wouldn’t say anything.
It’s not like any of them turned part of the papal palace into a hospital for the poor, like St.Louis Strattman turned a part of the family mansion into a hosptial.In Hungary he’s known as the doctor of the poor. Or they did like St.Katherine Drexel who used the Drexel banking fortune to help blacks and native americans and even founded a religious order,the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrement to minister to them.
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I’m thankful for the variety of saints and gifts poured out, in and through the body of Christ!
 
Paul was an awful pope. Indecisive and often lamented the mess he had made of things. “Auto destruction” and “smoke of Satan” entering the Church. Questions remain about his private life and influence. We are better praying for the repose of this unhappy man’s soul.

This cause for canonization is nothing to do with him, but it is to canonise the Council. Nothing really good came out of it, so to save it we have to canonise the popes that dealt with it.
 
It’s not unseemly or disrespectful, let alone somehow un-Catholic, to question how we went centuries with no sainted or beatified popes, and suddenly, every pope since…well, that would be Vatican II…with the sole exception of the one who reigned but a month…is now a Blessed or a Saint.
 
The timing of this, in relation to the Synod, is interesting given that this is the Pope of Humanae Vitae.
 
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