Yesterday Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Archbishop of Genoa, disclosed that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Pope’s ideologial “enforcer” for two decades, had presented a formula for the abolition of the “the miracle clause” to the Pope. Cardinal Bertone said that there was a growing feeling in the Vatican that the need for miracles for both beatification and canonisation was “anachronistic”.
If Cardinal Ratzinger is the one proposing it, then it DEFINITELY has the ear of the Pope.
Good tagline in the context of this thread.
From time to time it is reported Ratzinger is on the side of tradition. If this is true, he is not to be trusted.
IF canonizations are infallible (and it's disputable), then the sedevacantists scored another point in their argument.
If the See is not vacant, then by virtue of elimination of the position of devil's advocate, the process has been altered and can no longer validate saints with any assistance of the Holy Spirit.