The ways of God are truly inscrutable. Who would have said even three years ago before he was beatified, that Paul VI, pope of Humanae Vitae
as well as the Novus Ordo, would become a saint so soon (40 years since his death), which means to some people, including me, that this leaves
the cause of Pius XII lagging far behind???
Pope Paul VI, beatified in 2014,
is one step closer to canonization
by Iacopo Scaramuzzi
From the English service of
December 21, 2017
In a special issue entitled “It will be the year of Saint Paul VI", the weekly magazine of the diocese of Brescia,
La voce del popolo, writes that on 13 December, theologians of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Sainthood recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Pope Montini, after an approval had been given by the medical consultants who examined the case.
It remains for the Congregation itself and finally, the pope, to approve the miracle and thus pave the way for the 262nd pope's canonization. There will follow a Consistory with the official announcement of the approval and setting the date for the canonization.
The miracle was the birth of baby girl Amanda who in 2014 had survived in the womb and was delivered despite the fact that the placenta [the lifeline to the mother that supports the baby while it is in the womb] had broken.
The expectant mother, a native of Verona, was warned that she would miscarry, but a few days after the beatification of Papa Montini, she went to the Santuario delle Grazie in Brescia to pray for his intercession. She carried her child to turn, and the girl was born in good health, implying there had been a healing of the broken placenta in utero.
Pope Francis beatified his predecessor on 19 October 2014, concluding the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family.
“Rumors are so insistent and the next steps so fast to take, that everything indicates 2018 as Blessed Paul VI’s canonization year”, writes the diocesan newspaper of Brescia.
October 2018 could be the occasion, when, from Oct. 3-28, the 15th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, focused on the problems of young people, will take place at the Vatican with the presence of a large number of prelates participating in the synod.
It will most likely take place on one of the first three Sundays of October, but some are saying, it will probably be Oct. 21.
[If the miracle has been authenticated by both medical and theological experts, why should it take another 10 months to formalize the approval and set a canonization date?]