Posted on 02/18/2018 5:23:48 AM PST by heterosupremacist
VATICAN CITY – The late Pope Paul VI, who led the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s and 1970s during one of its most turbulent modern periods and enshrined its opposition to contraception, will be made a saint this year, Pope Francis has decided.
Francis made the announcement on Thursday at a private meeting with Rome priests. The Vatican issued the transcript of the conversation on Saturday.
When he made the announcement on Thursday, Francis joked that he and former Pope Benedict, who resigned in 2013 and is now 90 years old, “are on the waiting list”.
Paul became pope in 1963 after the death of Pope John XXIII. He guided the Church through the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, which had started under his predecessor, and the implementation of its modernizing reforms. He died in 1978.
He headed the Church through the 1960s when many priests left religious orders and vocations to the religious life fell sharply in the turbulent era of social change.
Paul is perhaps best known for his controversial encyclical Humane Vitae (On Human Life), which enshrined the Church’s ban on artificial birth control in 1968...
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In the original meaning of the term, all Christians are saints. It’s not used as a term to elevate one above the other.
If he wasn’t a saint while on earth and alive, he won’t be a saint now.
“will be made a saint, Pope Francis decided....”
Well...that’s not exactly how it works.
The Pope may decide to initiate the process in examining Pope Paul VI’s life.
IF the result is positive, according to that process, it may be determined that he IS a saint.
The fix is in!
Oh, why not make him a saint? The Church needs diversity in its pantheon of saints. Who would object to a Communist Pope, who destroyed the liturgy?
Yes, he gave us Humanae Vita, but with no enforcement or punishment.
“Oh, why not make him a saint? T
If he isn’t a saint before he passed away, it’s impossible to make him one now. Too late now.
What did he do, other than being pope, that makes him qualified to be elevated to sainthood? Let’s just make all popes saints.
I thought the same about John XXIII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII
I read a biography of Roncalli’s life, and I believe he was a man of ‘heroic virtue.’
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