VATICAN CITY — During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonized so many people that some dubbed the Vatican “the saint factory.”Now, the Polish pope’s own legacy is under a shadow and some Catholics are asking if declaring him a saint in 2014, a record nine years after his death, may have been a hasty decision. ‘Difficult reckoning’The head of the Polish bishops’ conference said McCarrick had “cynically deceived” John Paul, but not all Poles agreed. In Warsaw, someone placed a sticker on a street sign reading “John Paul II Avenue” to make it read “Victims of John Paul II Avenue.”In the United States, the influential National Catholic Reporter newspaper urged bishops to “suppress the cult” of the late pope. When Pope Benedict XVI was elected in 2005, he waived the rule, allowing John Paul’s cause to start only weeks after his death. Catholic author Dawn Eden Goldstein tweeted that the McCarrick Report had not changed her belief that John Paul was a saint, but had changed how she prays to him:“I now pray: Dear St. John Paul II, You broke it.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 16, 2020 09:56 UTC