[heyheyhey]

Nonsense.

The process still exists; only the exact name and the office are not used anymore. A Pope established the thing - a Pope could change the thing. Ever heard of "Papal Infallibility"? You may ask any knowledgeable Catholic person or a priest to explain it to you.

[ultima ratio]

The Pope has made a real mess. The office of Devil's Advocate has indeed been eliminated. The so-called "miraculous" recovery recently of a woman who had been praying to Mother Teresa has been firmly debunked by secular physicians who attributed the recovery to appropriate medication exclusively; and the recent canonization of the founder of Opus Dei was actually totally controlled by Opus Dei itself--the Order even used its own physicians to investigate the necessary number of "miracles". Escriva, a friend of the Pope, was canonized in record time and investigators refused to listen to the testimony of associates who knew the man intimately and charged he was very far from saintly. Much has been made of this in the secular press--which is justifiably scornful of such chicanery. Rome's credibilty on all this is zilch.