June 12, 1954 - #Canonization of Dominic Savio by Pius XII #saint #miracle #religion https://wakonda666.blogspot.com/2023/06/12th-june-1954-canonization-of-dominic.html

May 6, 1962: #canonization of Martin de Porrès by the Pope John XXIII #saint https://wakonda666.blogspot.com/2023/05/may-6-1962-canonization-of-martin-de.html

On the canonization of John Paul II and survivors of clerical sexual abuse, John Allen and Thomas Reese spectacularly miss the point

In what sense is a pastoral leader who has the ability to protect children from abuse but protects their abusers instead a role model for the Christian life?

#PopeJohnPaul #canonization #SexualAbuse #Catholic

http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2023/03/on-canonization-of-john-paul-ii-and.html

Allen and Reese say that, well, canonization doesn't mean the saint wasn't a sinner like the rest of us.

But that's not the point about the furor that John Paul II was made a saint — immediately. The point is that canonization holds the saint up to all of us as a model for the Christian life.

In what sense is a man a saint when he has a position of authority that allows him to protect minors from abuse but protects their abusers instead? That's the question here.

#PopeJohnPaul #canonization

John Allen and Thomas Reese appear not to understand what it means for the Catholic church to declare someone a saint — as it did so with reckless speed when Pope John Paul II was canonized immediately after his death, to the consternation of not a few Catholics who thought that John Paul's papal legacy was more than a little mixed.

As we're now finding out, as archbiship in Krakow, he covered up sexual abuse of minors by priests.

#PopeJohnPaul #canonization

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-paul-ii-former-pope-sainthood-debate-accusations-protecting-pedophiles-poland/

Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and Why
(1990) : Woodward, Kenneth L.
isbn: 0-671-74743-6
#process #canonization #politics #catholic_church #religion #saints #my_bibtex

So when my #heterosexual coworker asked me what I was doing tonight, I almost said —

“Attending the #Canonization of a #Gay #Saint by the #DFW Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in recognition for her decades of service to the #Dallas #LGBT community”

— until I realized it would take too long to explain half the nouns in that last sentence and went with —

“Hitting the bar”

#SistersOfPerpetualIndulgence