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| Pope Paul VI |
I recently read an article in
The Wanderer by Raymond de Souza,
Our Responsibility to Defend the True Faith. He used several terms that struck a chord. First, he described the "historic moment" we are living in, as a "moment of apocalyptical magnitude:
the twilight of Christian civilization." He went on to say, in the words of Pope Paul VI, that the Church has entered a
"process of auto-demolition." It's ironic that the very pope who did so much to create the auto-demolition later lamented it. Physician, heal thyself, eh?
I have a hard time considering Pope Paul VI a saint. One good document,
Humanae Vitae, published rather late into the push for approving contraception, does not a saint make, does it?
But must I call Pope Paul VI a saint? After reading Peter Kwasniewdki's article,
Why We Need Not (and Should Not) Call Paul VI ‘Saint’, I think the answer is no. As he says, "The infallibility of canonizations is
not taught by the Church, nor is it necessarily implied by any
de fide doctrine of the Faith." He went on:
