Cardinal: Sainthood will take time

[brooklynite]

ROME, Italy (AP) -- Canonizing Pope John Paul II will take time, the cardinal in charge of the Vatican's saint-making office cautioned Saturday even though Pope Benedict XVI has ordered the process speeded up.

On Friday, Benedict said he was announcing the "joyous" news that he had ordered the waiving of the mandatory five-year waiting period for the start of the process toward beatification, the last formal step before possible canonization.

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"It's a wonderful gesture," Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, who heads the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, told La Stampa in an interview published Saturday.

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Saraiva Martins added he had "no doubts at all" miracles would be approved.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/14/pope.sainthood.ap/index.html
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I guess you could say that "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy"

[KC21304]

1. LOL That's the way I read it. nt

[Cyrano]

2. How about making George W. a saint also? Doesn't the Vatican do two fers?

[oneighty]

3. Soon being canonized

will have no meaning. It will be likened unto golden stars in Kindergarten.


180

[ima_sinnic]

4. okay, so he's saint already. on to the next bit of chicanery.

whatever the people want to hear, I guess . . .