John Paul II and is blessed in the midst of the frenzied enthusiasm of a million and half people (police estimate) from all over the world. Faith moves mountains. And I put wings because the Polish pope's beatification has reached a sigh, more quickly than the mother Teresa of Calcutta. It has been a lightning beatification and sainthood is already reportedly just around the corner.
cononización process is how the Church has to satisfy a longing as old as humanity itself: the deification of mortals. What happens is that it preserves the tradition and democratization in their own way. Because men have always sought ways of deified, but that fate was reserved for the few and fortunate: the Pharaohs in Egypt, some heroes, like Hercules, Greece and some emperors in Rome. The Church places now available to the community of believers, shepherds of the flock and Papas. And it makes a lax interpretation of the requirements they are heroic virtues or martyrdom.
beatification has been a weapon to take because Ratzinger said John Paul II defeated Marxism. The press has meant that defeated communism, but he finally philosopher, spoke of Marxism. The conclusion is that materialism has been defeated. Maybe. Materialism is indeed a doctrine very rough and there is much merit in defeat. Another thing is rationalism, which often go hand in hand with materialism but is not identical to it. Rationalism does not carry on the presence or absence of the cherubim, for example, only requires you to submit evidence in the light of reason, not faith. And here is where the beatification is based on an act repugnant to reason, that is, a miracle .
has questioned the validity of the beatification arguing that such a miracle is not properly verified. But this is a contradiction because it implies the belief that, duly verified, no miracles, that is, facts that can not be explained rationally and that is something that reason can not accept because he can not know anything about where she is not.
In the eyes of the reason for the beatification of John Paul II is a rite of that curious mixture of magic and superstition which is Catholicism with their spells and their ancient and colorful liturgy.
(The picture is a picture of Roberto Luna under Creative Commons license ).
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