8.44. Don’t the canonizations of John Paul II and others prove the Vatican II Church is still Catholic?
Canonization is not merely a symbolic act or ecclesiastical recognition—it is a solemn, infallible declaration that a person practiced heroic virtue, died in the state of grace, and is in heaven, worthy of public veneration by the universal Church. The Catholic Church teaches that canonizations are protected by the Holy Ghost, and cannot err in presenting a soul as a model of faith and morals (cf. Benedict XIV, Vatican I).
But the Vatican II sect has canonized individuals who publicly promoted false ecumenism, presided over liturgical abuses, and upheld heresies—including John Paul II, who kissed the Qur’an, hosted interreligious prayer at Assisi, and taught that “hell may be empty.” These canonizations do not demonstrate sanctity, but rather expose the apostasy of the post-conciliar church. Below is a side-by-side comparison between true Catholic saints and Novus Ordo “saints.”
| Category | Traditional Catholic Saints | Novus Ordo “Saints” | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canonizing Authority | True popes exercising the Church’s infallible magisterium | Men who are publicly heretical and not true popes (e.g. John Paul II, Francis) | A heretic cannot be pope and therefore cannot canonize; their acts have no authority |
| Process | Lengthy, strict, judicial; includes *devil’s advocate*, miracles, heroic virtue | Simplified process; minimal scrutiny; *devil’s advocate* abolished | The purpose was to canonize modernist figures quickly to legitimize Vatican II |
| Miracles Required | Two posthumous miracles verified rigorously (except for martyrs) | Miracles optional, often medically dubious or politically convenient | The absence or doubtfulness of miracles undermines credibility of sanctity |
| Holiness of Life | Model of virtue, penance, humility, doctrinal purity, and asceticism | Promoters of heresy, ecumenism, Assisi meetings, and liturgical abuse | True saints upheld the faith unto death; Novus Ordo “saints” undermined it |
| Doctrinal Orthodoxy | Completely faithful to all dogmas; defenders of Catholic truth | Promoted Vatican II errors (e.g. religious liberty, salvation outside the Church) | Heresy excludes a person from canonization (*Pope Benedict XIV, De Servorum Dei Beatificatione*) |
| Public Scandal | None; lives marked by repentance, penance, and moral purity | Praised Luther, kissed the Qur’an, invited pagan worship into churches | Public scandal is incompatible with heroic virtue and sainthood |
| Purpose of Canonization | To glorify God and inspire the faithful to holiness and Catholic fidelity | To canonize the Vatican II revolution and its architects | These “canonizations” are propaganda tools, not judgments of sanctity |
| Fruits | Devotion, conversions, miracles, religious vocations, deeper faith | Confusion, relativism, scandal, mockery of Catholic tradition | “By their fruits you shall know them” (Matt. 7:16). The post-conciliar saints bear rotten fruit |
| Examples | St. Pius V, St. Athanasius, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Louis IX | “St.” John XXIII, “St.” Paul VI, “St.” John Paul II | Their legacy is not one of defending the faith, but transforming it |
| Validity | Infallible and binding under a true pope | Null and void—no pope, no magisterium, no infallibility | Canonizations by heretics are not canonizations at all |
Summary:
True canonizations are the fruit of the Church’s infallible teaching authority, used to glorify God and set forth models of heroic sanctity and doctrinal fidelity. But after Vatican II, the process has been politicized, rushed, and used to canonize the Council itself, by promoting the men who implemented its heresies.
Figures like John Paul II, Paul VI, and John XXIII are not saints but public heretics, scandalizers, and destroyers of Catholic tradition. No one who upholds or canonizes religious indifferentism, liturgical abuse, or Protestantized theology can be a model of Catholic sanctity.
Therefore, faithful Catholics must reject post-Vatican II canonizations as invalid, and continue to venerate only those saints canonized by true popes before the crisis began.
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