Talk:Canonization of Pope Pius XII

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Can you give reference to JPII declaration of Pius XII "Servant of God" in 1990? I was not able to find proof for this anywhere. E.C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.227.112.67 (talk) 04:44, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Relevancy

I think it would be best if this article were limited to information that pertains to the canonization, rather than information about Pius XII generally. Particularly in the support and opposition sections I have tried to find quotations that not only are a reaction to the process but actually comment on it. More general stuff, I think, does not belong here and would make this article unmanageable. In particular the recent blockquote in the support section only references the Pius controversy generally and does not express support for or comment on his cause for canonization. Savidan 15:54, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, I might tend to agree, but I found the article as it existed particluarly unbalanced and POV. It had a section under opposition for "historians" and for "Jewish groups", giving the impression that both historians and Jewish groups universally opposed Pius' virtue, when that could not be further from the truth. Martin Gilbert one of the most noted Jewish scholars on the subject considers the attacks to be pure bunk. Moreover, in addition to the need to include the material for balance, the comments included go to Pius' virtue and to the purported opposition which is based on the objections to his virtue. Also, most commentary by informed participants are made in light of Pius' cause for canonization. Mamalujo (talk) 23:46, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Too Jewish-centric and confused view of what canonisation is

The majority of the text in the article is not related to the actual canonisation of Pius XII (ie - the presentation of evidence regarding mircales), but rather, the whining about it from non-Catholic polemicists (who do not accept Jesus Christ and thus, I presume rabbinic Judaism does not "recognise" Catholic saints as in heaven, anyway). This sort of stuff needs cutting down drastically. It also puts across a sort of notion that members of the Church randomly "choose" saints, as if it was some sort of beauty pagent or popularity contest. This is not how canonisation works. - Yorkshirian (talk) 10:48, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

This is not Catholic-pedia. The text is related to the canonization; encyclopedia coverage of this topic includes praise and criticism from non-Catholics. All of the material is sourced. Since Wikipedia is not paper, there is no reason to "[cut it] down drastically" other than POV pushing. "I don't like it" is not a good reason to remove neutral and referenced material. Savidan 06:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)