10th précis

Title: John Paul II beatification: Politics of saint-making

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13207940

Vocabulary:

supernatural – (adj.) that cannot be explained by the laws of science;
A creature with supernatural powers.
She had supernatural powers to heal people.

exempt – (adj.) free from having to do sth or pay sth;
Children under 16 are exempt from dental charges.
Currently, developing nations are exempt from certain restrictions on carbon emissions.

writ  - (n) an official document that tells someone to do something or to stop doing something;
I got a writ from the court yesterday.
I have a writ to pay the overdue fee.

haste – (n) doing thongs too quickly;
In my haste to escape, I tripped over a fallen branch.
In my haste to get to the airport on time I left my passport at home.

hostile – very unfriendly towards sb/sth; not having a good opinion of sb/sth;
They are very hostile to any changes.
The minister found himself in the middle of a hostile crowd.

savvy – (n) the ability to understand and judge people and situations well;
He has a lot of political savvy.
Where’s your savvy?

feast – (n) a large, special meal;
Feast of The Royal Castle was wonderful.
We celebrated this special day feast.


Precis:

                 Catholics claim that Jesus is extranatural phennomenon and some people ought to be considered as blessed and even as saints. Sometimes observers disagreed with beatification of John Paul II due to his procedures to stop sexual abuse. It is supposed that the beatification of John Paul II has nothing to do with thruth but is only making politics. In the case of John Paul II all the required criteria of appraisal of the life of candidate for saint have been fulfilled. In England one of the argument against the whole idea of the beatification of John Paul II is the fact that he canonised and blessed the geratest number of people in comparicion to the total number of the recognised as saits in the whole history of the mankind. Another argument is that John Paul III changed the principles of recognition the sainthoodness, namely that the necessary number of evidences was reduced by him and now is smaller than in the previous centuries and before his pontificy. One of the strongest argument against beatifiication of John Paul II is that he beatified Gianna Beretta Molla which had refused the hysterectomy (and de faco abortion) as indicated by physicians. The next argument against beatification of JPII is that he can be included among sainnts in the short period of our times.