John Paul II a Saint?
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Pope Benny is in a mad hurry to have Pope John Paul II declared a saint. Ford pardoned Nixon.
Some Roman Catholic theologians find him a doubtful candidate given the financial and pedophilia scandals of his quarter-century of theological tightness.
The theologians said the Church's saint-makers should also consider the "repression and alienation" inflicted on some thinkers by the late pope. This was a reference to his moves to discipline promoters of Latin America's "Liberation Theology", which he felt was too close to Marxist social analysis, as a way of helping the continent's poor.
A couple of miracles are needed as well. But those have always been easily manufactured.