Pressing Item for New Pope: Saint Process

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Thursday April 14, 2005 10:01 AM


By NICOLE WINFIELD

Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Even though cardinals haven't yet cast a single ballot for a new pope, there's already a pressing item on the future pope's agenda: whether to declare Pope John Paul II a saint outright - or at least accelerate the saint-making process.

As a result, some Vatican watchers say, the popular calls for canonizing John Paul may well influence the voting that begins Monday.

Cardinals are still talking about the issue, an indication that the outpouring of affection for John Paul is very much on their minds as they decide whether the next pope will be someone who follows closely in his footsteps.

In addition, the Italian media - which the cardinals have access to until they are sealed off in the conclave Monday - is fairly obsessed with the issue. Each day, Italian newspapers take another angle on the issue.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4936493,00.html


Like...."St Roberto 'God's Banker' Calvi"??? Or "St Licio Gelli"?

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1. patron saint of "child molestors" sounds right......

sweep it all under the rug - the philosophy of JP II

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