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The late Pope John Paul II in the spring, will be beatified, the Vatican announced Friday, according to the present Pope, Benedict XVI, has confirmed that his predecessor had met the requirements.
The move by the previous pope one step closer to sainthood in what already is an accelerated timetable that Benedict released a few weeks after the death of John Paul II for almost six years.
The Vatican said Benedict XVI, the conclusions of the church that John Paul had approved a miracle made after his death, a requirement for beatification. A nun from Parkinson's disease, such as the late pope, he said his illness was cured after praying to John Paul II shortly after his death.
The beatification is scheduled for 1 to take May, the first Sunday after Easter, the Vatican said.
The decision to bring John Paul II, who inspired millions worldwide with his stand against communism and his ability, after an assassination attempt in 1981, again, is good news for the Roman Catholic Church by numerous allegations of sexual abuse by Priests, nuns and others have been abused religious.
Many acts of violence have taken during the papacy of 27 years of John Paul II. But much of the blame for the slow and on the defensive throughout much of the Church of complaints moved the Vatican today.
After the death of John Paul II on 2 April 2005, pilgrims and mourners at his funeral at St. Peter's Square, waving placards calling for "the sanctity of the moment," a sign of their devotion. A few weeks later, Benedict XVI said he would immediately open up the process of canonization, the laws that dies is a waiting period of five years from the dictates of a person.
End of 2009, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated the official recognition of the "heroic virtues" of John Paul II and received the title "Venerable." After beatification, the Pope is "blessed" as.
A Holiness confirmed that a second miracle is needed.
Reports surface last year that at least some researchers in the Church of doubtful accounts of Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, a nun, the French Parkinson's disease through the intercession of John Paul II was healed.
But the panel overseeing the investigation revealed that the resumption of religious degenerative disease had no explanation - in other words, it was a miracle.
Although fast-track holiness are unusual, not unprecedented.
The move by the previous pope one step closer to sainthood in what already is an accelerated timetable that Benedict released a few weeks after the death of John Paul II for almost six years.
The Vatican said Benedict XVI, the conclusions of the church that John Paul had approved a miracle made after his death, a requirement for beatification. A nun from Parkinson's disease, such as the late pope, he said his illness was cured after praying to John Paul II shortly after his death.
The beatification is scheduled for 1 to take May, the first Sunday after Easter, the Vatican said.
The decision to bring John Paul II, who inspired millions worldwide with his stand against communism and his ability, after an assassination attempt in 1981, again, is good news for the Roman Catholic Church by numerous allegations of sexual abuse by Priests, nuns and others have been abused religious.
Many acts of violence have taken during the papacy of 27 years of John Paul II. But much of the blame for the slow and on the defensive throughout much of the Church of complaints moved the Vatican today.
After the death of John Paul II on 2 April 2005, pilgrims and mourners at his funeral at St. Peter's Square, waving placards calling for "the sanctity of the moment," a sign of their devotion. A few weeks later, Benedict XVI said he would immediately open up the process of canonization, the laws that dies is a waiting period of five years from the dictates of a person.
End of 2009, Pope Benedict XVI dedicated the official recognition of the "heroic virtues" of John Paul II and received the title "Venerable." After beatification, the Pope is "blessed" as.
A Holiness confirmed that a second miracle is needed.
Reports surface last year that at least some researchers in the Church of doubtful accounts of Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, a nun, the French Parkinson's disease through the intercession of John Paul II was healed.
But the panel overseeing the investigation revealed that the resumption of religious degenerative disease had no explanation - in other words, it was a miracle.
Although fast-track holiness are unusual, not unprecedented.
