The Pope was criticized for creating – it was said – a “factory of saints”, that is to say, he multiplied the number of beatifications in particular. In the meantime, as the Council recommended, it was “openness” to the sanctity of especially lay, married couples, great and representative figures of the young Churches. That is, it was about holiness, not the holiness reserved almost exclusively to the monks and to the countries of the former evangelization, as if it were their “fiefdom”.
Then, in order to recall the new things of those years, I would like to draw attention to the appearance of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. And, for the revision of the Code of Canon Law, in which the Holy Father was very involved, wishing that it was emphasized– always after the line of the Second Vatican Council – that the “fundamental subject” was no longer the clergy, but the faithful, not the hierarchical structure, but the ecclesial community.
With the permission of Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz – “At the side of the Saint”
St. Stanislaw BM Publishing House, Krakow 2013
