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...humble two-story home in the town of Wadowice, in the rolling countryside of southern Poland. He died 85 years later in Rome as the most widely beloved - and arguably most influential - pope of the past millennium. But exactly when the Catholic Church will officially recognize Pope John Paul II as a saint is a question only the Lord (and Vatican bureaucrats) can answer...
...Benedict disappointed those hoping that this four-day trip to Poland would bring an automatic proclamation of beatification, the final step before starting the canonization process toward sainthood. Still, he offered some hope on Saturday that John Paul could rise to saint status faster than any figure in modern church history. In one of the rare moments when he strayed from his prepared text, Benedict told a Polish crowd he hoped that "providence in the near future will offer us the chance to enjoy the beatification and canonization of John Paul...
...Still, Benedict has already allowed for a major shortcut to "St. John Paul," having waved the normal five-year waiting period after death for the opening of the beatification process. John Paul had done the same with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was beatified quicker than anyone before, just six years after her 1997 death. The quickest to get all the way to sainthood under current procedures was Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, who died in 1975, and was canonized...
...John Paul may very well get the nod even faster, especially if all the prayers have a say. On Friday evening, the new pope encouraged young people in Krakow to continue their ritual of praying for John Paul's sainthood the second day of every month, at the hour of his death, saying that the ritual "supports those working on his Cause." Benedict told the crowd Saturday in the central square of Wadowice that he will be praying that John Paul's sainthood comes "soon." That got big cheers from the hometown crowd, chants of "We Thank You! We Thank...
...Following the set canonical process allows an official and thorough accounting of John Paul's "entire life...all his deeds." There are a multitude of cases of supposed miracles attributed to the late pope, but officials are zeroing in on the healing of a French nun suffering from Parkinson's disease, the same progressive nervous system ailment that had stricken John Paul. Doctors will have to confirm that there is no medical explanation for the nun's recovery. "The miracle is the confirmation," explained Father Gumpel. "In all human undertakings there can be mistakes, so we need divine confirmation...