Remembering Roncalli | National Catholic Reporter

Remembering Roncalli | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Roncalli certainly did have a perilous task after the war.  Of course, John Paul II had to deal with the specter of Rawandan bishops who urged genocide and who, rather justly, were executed rather than retired.  As far as dealing with anti-modernism and the cult of suspicion, I would have used that as devil's advocate for keeping Pius X out of canonization - especially since on matters of the historical aspects of the scriptures, the Modernists were right - something the CDF is yet to admit.  Finally, as far as pesonal saintliness, one need only look at Roncalli as a child spending hours in his parish church spending time doing nothing but prayer to the Blessed Sacrament.  This is a practice follwed in his own papacy by John Paul II.  That is why it is most fitting that they be canonized together, even if John Paul spent a bit too much time listening to informants who were disatisfied with some of the bishops he inherited.  Of course, that would not be a problem if there werer MORE democracy in the Church, especially around the appointment and removal of bishops.  It is time to end that bit of medievalism in the life of the Church.