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To: Rokke; sevry
I don't think Papal Infallibility is a consideration in the process of canonization and he can "repeal" the past requirements for sainthood. However, as Sevry wrote, these new "saints" probably will not be revered in the same way as other saints.

What I found most appalling is the Pope's desire to make the "father" of the European Union a saint. Even the most ignorant observer can realize that the EU is at odds with everything Christian.

7 posted on 12/20/2004 6:21:54 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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To: wagglebee
What I found most appalling is the Pope's desire to make the "father" of the European Union a saint.

Who?

30 posted on 12/20/2004 8:28:50 PM PST by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: wagglebee; Rokke; sevry

Canonizations are exercises of papal infallibility.

I would invite you to peruse both the standard language of canonizations, and the unanimous opinion of theologians on this topic.


199 posted on 12/21/2004 1:07:19 PM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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