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Cardinal Re Expects Declaration in 2013 or 2014
ROME, January 11, 2013 (Zenit.org).
The retired prefect of the Congregation for Bishops says Blessed John Paul II will likely be canonized this year or next.
Cardinal
Giovanni Battista Re offered this prediction during a presentation this
week of "Il Papa e il Poeta" (The Pope and the Poet), written by
Vatican expert Mimmo Muol.
"If it's not this year it will be next," said the cardinal,
explaining that as more than one miracle has been attributed to the
Polish Pontiff's intercession, "surely there is at least a valid one for
his canonization."
Experts of the Congregation for Saints' Causes are reviewing the alleged miracles.
"The time [for the process] can be very brief," said the cardinal,
who said the congregation was studying three or four miracles "to
evaluate the most solid one."
"The cures are evaluated by a committee of seven doctors, members of a
rather exacting internal scientific body, who have the task of
examining every detail," Cardinal Re explained.
The former Vatican official classified the doctors as "rigid and
meticulous," saying that they would not consider a healing miraculous if
an illness was cured with therapies that in similar cases were
effective.
"The seven doctors of the committee must be in agreement that it is
an inexplicable case," he said, "from the human and scientific point of
view."
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