Posted on 04/11/2005 5:58:51 AM PDT by NYer
It's in the Holy Father's perogatives to change things. I remember when I was growing up in Chicago,one of the nuns said that there would always be people who thought themselves holier than the Church.
Some lady called into a radio talk show (Schnitt, kinda conservative, not a Pope or Catholic fan by any means) and claims she was cured of Hepatitis C by the pope. She got all the documentation and sent it to the Vatican, as they requested. She sounded convincing to me.
Nuns in Chicago have said plenty of things, some saner than others. In this instance, I don't recall having said that the pope didn't have the authority to change the standards, or that I was holier than anyone. Just stating the fact that the standards had been changed, and intimating that I don't think it was a good idea. I have doubts about whether naming nearly as many saints as your 260+ predecessors combined is a good idea. That doesn't mean that I don't accept it as having been validly done.
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