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Pope John Paul II a 'martyr': Vatican

Pope John Paul II a 'martyr': Vatican

Posted online: Friday, August 26, 2005 at 1154 hours IST


Vatican City, August 26: The editor of the Vatican newspaper today said that Pope John Paul II was a "martyr" even though he survived a 1981 assassination attempt.

The comment was the latest from a Vatican official suggesting that John Paul might be beatified a martyr.

That classification would mean he would not need to have a miracle attributed to him in order to be beatified.

Mario Agnes, editor-in-chief of the official Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano, told an annual pro-catholic political meeting that the stones in St Peter's Square where John Paul's blood was shed should be preserved because it was the blood of "an authentic martyred Pope."

[One Truth]

One thing I really like about being Catholic is that I don't have to shut off my brain. Y'know, that whole fides 'n ratio thing.. no conflict.

So, armed with the wits God gave me, when somebody talks about anyone who survived his own martyrdom, I am able to tell it's an impossible contradiction and a fat load of crap.