You've got to be kidding! A devil's advocate would have had a field day with that one speech. But wait; wasn't it JPII himself who abolished the role of devil's advocate in his new and improved "saint factory"?
You've got to be kidding! A devil's advocate would have had a field day with that one speech. But wait; wasn't it JPII himself who abolished the role of devil's advocate in his new and improved "saint factory"?
“Asking St. John the Baptist to protect Islam is proof of sanctity?”
Did I claim it was? If I didn’t claim it was, but you are suggesting with that leading question that I did, is that a fair or intellectually honest tactic on your part?
“You’ve got to be kidding! A devil’s advocate would have had a field day with that one speech.”
Well, apparently not.
“But wait; wasn’t it JPII himself who abolished the role of devil’s advocate in his new and improved “saint factory”?”
John Paul II revised the canonization process and that included reducing the role of the Devil’s Advocate. Remember, for about half of all Church history there was no centralized canonization process and no Devil’s Advocate. Both are innovations.