"Francis mentioned John Paul only in passing when canonizing him in 2014. The canonization fell on the 75th birthday of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul’s longtime secretary, but the late pontiff made no public mention of it, nor did he mention Poland, despite the immense throng of Poles present. A wound was opened that day, which never fully healed.
The dismantling of the John Paul II Institute in Rome by Pope Francis cut into the same wound opened at the canonization. In 2017, the institute, while still keeping John Paul’s name, was redirected — complete with new statutes and leadership — to follow the teaching of Amoris Laetitia, which not a few scholars argued was at odds with John Paul’s own teaching on civil-divorce-and-remarriage."
Healing from the trauma inflicted by Pope Francis will take years. Healing from the trauma inflicted by liberals in his generational cohort may only happen at the parrousia. St. John Paul the Great, pray for us!
“Those who have hope must live different lives! By your prayers, by the witness of your faith, by the fruitfulness of your charity, may you point the way toward that vast horizon of hope which God is even now opening up to his Church, and indeed to all humanity: the vision of a world reconciled and renewed in Christ Jesus, our Savior.” -Pope Benedict the Beloved
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