Please.
The "Dark Night of the Soul" is a purification of the mystical soul. It is a trial ordained by God and only the great mystics of the Church experience it. Few know what it is and still fewer experience it. It is a longing for God while feeling abandoned by Him. The holy souls who experience it always maintain loyalty to their superiors and the Church.
Try not to confuse this mystical phenomenon with unbelief and skepticism about the Church's approach to evaluating sanctity.
You said it so well. Thanks very much.
Doubt is doubt.
Some are rosy followers of the Vatican.
Some are cerebral.
I am not Catholic because the Vatican tells me to be. I have studied my faith.
That JPII will one day be in heaven is something I trust. That he changed the process for canonization is something I know. That this is right, I have my doubts. I have no clue why one would consider that a Catholic can not have doubts.
I don’t blindly follow the cult of personality and the devastation of the Catholic Church is evident. You have to balance the collapse of communism with the collapse of the Catholic Church in the West. He presided over both. Record numbers of priests laicised; spectacular decline in vocations; churches closed and sold off; dioceses bankrupted by court fines. This cannot be simply overlooked, in the context of such a long pontificate.
Denying that is denying reality.