--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Marlon, > A couple of days ago, your close-by neighbor called > me something like: More Catholic than the pope. So > I guess, I am doing something right!:=)) > Mario observes: Since Gilbert is the only Catholic who is not a "cafeteria" Catholic, I guess this puts him ahead of the Pope on the Holiness scale. Either that, or first on the questionable self-description scale.
I think Pope Benedict XVI was WRONG to fast-track Pope JP-II towards sainthood. This fast-track process was fine for Mother Theresa, who was obviously a living saint, by universal acclamation, but dilutes the meaning of sainthood when used willy nilly for just anyone. JP-II, for all his good deeds, had so many failures of omission and blind spots regarding the pedophile priest issue, as my posts listed right after his death, that there was NO NEED to rush to beatify him, in my never humble opinion. We don't need saints who were soft on pedophiles and completely ignored the victims.