Canonize Benedict XVI? Already? Plus Cardinal Zen Praised Benedict

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1. A meditation: Saints are raised up in clusters, according to
   one source some years ago. In our day, I believe, Cardinal
   Zen, Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Schneider, Archbishop
   Viganò, and many unseen Religious and Lay people (un-
   numbered Catholics in China & in all continents —a
   “cloud of witnesses” —grace the Church and the World
   with the ferment of Suffering. “There is no love without
   suffering” (Ste. Thérèse).

   Your well-considered proposal, Anthony, to “Return To
   Tradition”, to the Church’s PROVEN former time-vetted
   DELAY of Beatifications and of Canonizations, is
   realistic and needed.

   Re. Pope Paul VI, yes, he did have at least one devotee.
   Being this man’s chauffeur (mid ’70s; Windsor/ Detroit), I
   was witness to Mr. Ouellette’s ardent love for Pope Paul,
   shown both in his conversation and in his framed photo
   of the Pope —a JOY-filled face —placed prominently in
   the living room of his home.

   Heedful, vigilant, prudent ” . . to be cautious”, these the
   Church had been during past Pontificates, when HOLY
   Popes —combative, wise, keenly aware of global
   events and “currents” within the Church —reigned in
   true Sovereign fashion these past two+ centuries.
   But today ?

   If the Vatican, rather than being prudently cautious,
   has traded Unity, Holiness, Catholicity, and Mission for
   political astuteness (by “stacking the deck” with pre-
   ferred future conclave “hopefuls”) well then, the Laity
   had better RESTORE HOLY CAUTION, with hours
   spent before the Blessed Sacrament . . like St.
   John Paul II, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

   An appointed and REAL “Devil’s Advocate” still
   remains a win-win component of the process.
   And if the candidate up for canonization IS a Saint 
   —in the “Eyes of God”, i.e. objectively —Devil’s
   Advocates will only CONFIRM that reality.

   Still, people need the whole range of evidence
   of a Canonization Process to confirm the
   candidate’s lived heroic virtue and Holiness.

   On the altar of Mother St. Teresa of Calcutta’s
   chapel, where her Sisters prayed each morning
   before going out to the streets, were five words:
   “You did it to Me”. And it was St.Robert Bellarmine
   who declared that, “Come the final judgement,
   the whole syllabus will be on CHARITY.”

   It seems to this observer that Benedict XVI’s
   kindness and gentleness to each who came before
   him —regarded as Jesus in so many “disguises” —
   was the meekness and gentleness of the Lord,
   spelled out in the Litany of the Sacred Heart.

   I’m all for the former 30 years wait before canon-
   izing a Candidate. Let’s see what comes into
   focus after such a wait, when many of us THEN
   will be focussing on our own particular judgement,
   having, like Pope Benedict XVI, passed through
   “death’s dark door”.

   JESUS I TRUST IN YOU !

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2. Not yet. Too soon as it was with ,JP 2.

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