John Paul II was declared blessed in today's ritual, a person who died six years ago. One of the big reasons in why he was declared blessed is because of the healing that happened after his prayer. BBC news write, "'Appearing at a vigil on Saturday, she told the crowd: 'I was cured on the night between June 2 and June 3, 2005. 'I woke up at four in the morning and felt that something had changed in me.'" Now understand this, in order for her to go publicly about this, and have so many people be involved, there were lot's of medical Doctors examining her case if she was right. It would not be good for the reputation of the Religion when next morning in some local news paper someone would write how it was a fraud.
This event drew millions of people to Rome. As the article writes, "Police in Rome estimated that one million people had come to the city for the event, including large numbers of pilgrims from the late Pope's native Poland" to publicly appear on that John Paul II beatification ritual. Also, president Mugabe, Poland, and Mexico attended this event with "among some 90 heads of state and other dignitaries."
Some one might say, what is a Beatification? Well Wikipedia says explains it this way, "is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name (intercession of saints). Beatification is the third of the four steps in the canonization process. A person who is beatified is given the title 'Blessed.'" Now understand that this process is done by man not angels or God, it is a ritual, in that, people decided on their own according to their system--you don't even see this kind of instruction or even a hint in the Bible as something that needs to be done.
What's going on here is that the leaders or who ever in charge of this religion, decide should be done or not. It's not like they are guided by the Bible or the Holy Spirit; bible and these people have no bond in what happened to John Paul II in beatification process, because bible is silent on this ritual–this does not mean it should take place in the first place.
Another thing to note here is the dark spot hunting them no matter where they go and what they do. BBC news writes that people "have criticised John Paul II's handling of the Church's child sex abuse scandal." This problem is steal real in our times, time after time, you would hear newspaper talk about a case where someone is pressing charges on the church. Peoples faith in God were shattered as they heard that their child was abused by a person who they thought was holy.
This reminds me of the words that Jesus said: “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in" (Matthew 23:13)
This video was take from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13251415
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