John Paul II did not have the charity of Mother Teresa

The old uglier John Paul II




Mother Teresa of Calcutta



John Paul II was different from Mother Teresa of Calcutta who said that she “saw Christ” in each poor destitute person she and her sisters of Missionaries of Charity cared for in the streets of India. John Paul II never “saw Christ” in any one of the 12,000 American victim of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army www.jp2army.blogspot.com Mother Teresa was an authentic missionary of charity while John Paul II traveled around the world as a “missionary” for his own narcissistic papal glory and obsessed with the title of John Paul II the Great.

On February 3, 1986, Pope John Paul II met Mother Teresa in Calcutta.
A year before that encounter, in 1985, John Paul II learned about priest-pedophilia in the USA when Tom Doyle gave his extensive research of the priest-pedophilia in New Orleans and predicted the hundreds of millions of dollars that would come out of possible lawsuits against the Catholic Church in America. Instead of heeding him, John Paul II had Tom Doyle fired from his post as Chaplain of US Navy (2 years shy of his retirement funds). John Paul II went on to travel around the world ignoring Tom Doyle’s warning. He went on to beatify and canonize 1,500 blesseds and saints in the Vatican saint-factory. He did not spend one iota with the 6,000 pedophile priests in America and he did not spend one minute with any of their victims - especially the victims of the 80 pedophile priests whom Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston admitted to transferring from one parish to another.


In April 2002, priest-pedophilia erupted in Boston and Cardinal Bernard Law was forced to resign by the ‘laity of Boston’. To show that he had more power than the laity, John Paul II promoted Law as Archpriest of St. Mary Major, the most prestigious basilica in Rome. In July 2002, as an ugly-looking pope, he came to North America for the last time and he barely said 24 words about priest-pedophilia, he simply called it “harm done”. For a pope who wrote the most number of books and speeches, he refused to define the sin of priest-pedophilia as it is. He beatified Mother Teresa in 2003. He died in 2005 never meeting his victims nor embracing them and asking them for forgiveness. John Paul II’s Achilles Heel is his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. Just because he is pictured with Mother Teresa does not make him automatically a saint; even Judas walked and worked with Christ.


Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul II are different as day and night when it comes to charity for children and the least of Christ’s brethren. Mother Teresa loved the destitute and she lived and cared for them with her own bare hands together with the Jesuits who serve them in spiritual guidance and daily Eucharist. Meanwhile John Paul II never touched nor defended the poor American victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

John Paul II always lived in the lap of luxury at the Vatican Palace daily shaking hands with royalties and wealthiest people of the world. His funeral was also attended by the wealthiest who could afford a trip to his final spectacle in Rome. John Paul II died “without seeing the face of Christ” in the poor victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.

John Paul II is the most photographed pope. Did John Paul II the Great ever hug one poor victim of priest-pedophilia (for the camera)? Never. He denied their existence and he refused to hear their plight. He was obsessed with his legacy as “John Paul II the Great” and he knew that these poor victims would sully his image. So he covered-up their names until his death. Benedict XVI helped him in that covered-up see Benedict XVI-Ratzinger, God’s Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/

As pope, John Paul II intentionally denied giving personal charity towards the victims of priest-pedophilia. Under his Holy See he tolerated the crime of priest-pedophilia to thrive. His holy papal nose could smell the stench priest-pedophilia which proves that he was “not full of grace”…not even close to the Blessed Mary. He betrayed Totus Tuus Marie with his own sinful Achilles Heel of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army see http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/ John Paul II does not deserve to be called “blessed” or “saint” in America.

Happy thanksgiving to all our friends and readers.

John Paul II the Great clashing cymbal of St. Paul

www.bible-history.com/.../ancient-cymbals.html

Benedict XVI declared the Year of St. Paul from June 2008 to June 2009 but what he fails to see is that he and John Paul II are the role models of St. Paul's clashing cymbals in Corinthian 13. John Paul II is the great clashing cymbal of St. Paul and he exemplifies 1 Corinthian 13:1-2. John Paul II the Great maybe the ‘greatest’ pope because he wrote the most number of books and spoke the most number of homilies and speeches…but he did “not have love” for the American 12,000 victims of priest-pedophilia. John Paul II may have the fastest track to sainthood but he did “not have love” for the victims of priest-pedophilia in Ireland and around the world, thus John Paul II is the great clashing cymbal of St. Paul. In 1 Corinthian 13: 1-2 St. Paul said: “If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal”. John Paul II spoke in papal tongues but did not have love for the victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/ John Paul II is a resounding papal gong.

The American victims of Pearl Harbor were 3,000, the American victims of 9⁄11 World Trade Center were 5,000, and the American victims of priest-pedophilia are 12,000. John Paul II had more than 26 years of papacy to STOP the 6,000 priest-pedophiles but he did NOTHING because he “had no love”.


During the first eruption of priest-pedophilia here in Boston in 2002, John Paul II came to North America for the last time, to Toronto for his last World Youth Day, and all he said were 24 words about priest-pedophilia (he refused to call it as such, he mildly defined it as a vague "harm done"). John Paul II who spoke in angelic tongues said it in one sentence (as one paragraph): “The harm done by some priests and religious to the young and vulnerable fills us all with a deep sense of sadness and shame." John Paul II demonstrated more his rock star adulation and fame rather “sadness and shame”.

John Paul II loved the rich young people who could afford thousands of dollars to attend his World Youth Day, but he had no “papal love” for the victims of priest-pedophilia who couldn’t afford a lawyer or go to Rome to meet him. John Paul II the most travelled pope never addressed the urgent issue of priest-pedophilia exploding in front of his face and ears in 2002 because he “had no love” for the sexually abused by priests. John Paul II only had time of day for the “holy” men and women who will converse only about his “holy” books. So he used all his papal powers for 26 years to cover-up the ugliest and most heinous crime against children in Catholic Church history. In the end, God allowed him to become a drooling ugly old pope, his speech became so garbled people could barely understand his words. John Paul II fell from the papal throne just like the brightest angel Lucifer fell from grace and from heaven.

What kind of children did John Paul II actually love? Only those rich well-clothed infants he used and kissed for his political photo-ops. But for the least of Christ’s brethren, the long-suffering victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, he had neither compassion nor compunction. That is why, even if Benedict XVI is working hard to beatify and present him as the ‘greatest pope’, John Paul II is the foremost clashing cymbal of St. Paul and he is first member of the ‘Catholic Hall of Shame’ http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-is-first-member-of.html and Benedict XVI-Ratzinger, God's Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/

John Paul II is the first member of the ‘Catholic Hall of Shame', Cardinal Bernard Law is the second member

John Paul II is the first member of the ‘Catholic Hall of Shame' because he covered-up, for 26 years, the priest-pedophilia in the USA, Ireland, and around the world.

John Paul II defended the unborn from abortion, but, he never defended the living 12,000 American victims from priest-pedophilia.

If Catholics are proud to name the John Paul II Generation of Youth and Priests, it also just to call the more than 6,000 American pedophile priests as the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army see lists in www.jp2army.blogspot.com and http://www.bishop-accountability.org/

The major problem with John Paul II was that he was preoccupied with either the unborn or the dead that he ignored the living. He preached against abortion and wrote Letter entitled “The Gospel of Life”. He was obsessed with canonizing the dead that he beatified and canonized more than 1,500 dead people in the Vatican saint-factory. But in-between he ignored completely the living 12,000 survivors’ network of those abused by priests, SNAP http://www.snapnetwork.org/

John Paul II refused to address the issue of priest-pedophilia brewing and erupting right under his Holy See and holy nose. He spoke only one sentence about it in 2002, see excerpt below. For a pope who wrote countless speeches, homilies and books, he had exactly 24 words to say about it. That's barely one-word-per-year for his 26 years papacy.


As early as 1985, Tom Doyle gave him an intensive research of priest-pedophilia in New Orleans. Tom Doyle warned John Paul II and the Vatican that it could cost the American Catholic Church hundreds of millions of dollars if these victims ever sued.

In 1979, John Paul II landed first here in Boston. Ironically, priest-pedophilia first erupted in Boston in 2002. Coincidently, 2002 was his last trip to North America and his last World Youth Day. And it was the – first and last time in public - he ever addressed the issue priest-pedophilia.

In 1994, Robert Costello's wrote a letter to John Paul II about priest-pedophile Rev. John M. Cotter of Boston http://www.bishop-accountability.org/docs/boston/cotter/1994_05_20_Costello_JPII_01.htm. He calls the priest “second to God” and wrote “What I can’t understand all of the silence by the Catholic Church”.

Unfortunately, John Paul II stuck only to his position as “second to God” and opted to keep “all the silence” about priest-pedophilia.


John Paul II cannot claim that he was not informed and was ignorant about this most heinous crime against children in Catholic Church history that thrived and erupted during his longest reigning papacy in modern times. Cardinal Bernard Law, all cardinals and bishops have been informing him in their regular visits to Rome.

Below is an excerpt and underlined are his words. In 2002, in his last trip to North America, this was John Paul II’s – first and last words – about priest-pedophilia. It was only one sentence inserted in his entire long speech. (see sentence in bold)

Unfortunately, these papal words were a bit - too late and useless - to the 12,000 victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. And his papal words did not prevent the more than 2 Billion dollars the Catholic Church had to pay for his papal negligence and papal cover-up.

An excerpt from John Paul II homily at
The World Youth Day 2002
Toronto, Downsview Park, Sunday July 28, 2002

Even a tiny flame lifts the heavy lid of night. How much more light will you make, all together, if you bond as one in the communion of the Church! If you love Jesus, love the Church! Do not be discouraged by the sins and failings of some of her members.

The harm done by some priests and religious to the young and vulnerable fills us all with a deep sense of sadness and shame.

But think of the vast majority of dedicated and generous priests and religious whose only wish is to serve and do good!

There are many priests, seminarians and consecrated persons here today; be close to them and support them! And if, in the depths of your hearts, you feel the same call to the priesthood or consecrated life, do not be afraid to follow Christ on the royal road of the Cross!

At difficult moments in the Church's life, the pursuit of holiness becomes even more urgent. And holiness is not a question of age; it is a matter of living in the Holy Spirit, just as Kateri Tekakwitha did here in America and so many other young people have done.

You are young, and the Pope is old, 82 or 83 years of life is not the same as 22 or 23. But the Pope still fully identifies with your hopes and aspirations.

(Full speech here http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/2002/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20020728_xvii-wyd_en.html)

Unfortunately, the John Paul II did not “fully identify” with the healing of the 12,000 American victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.



The second member of the ‘Catholic Hall of Shame’ is Cardinal Bernard Law


In 2002, the epicentre of priest-pedophilia was Boston. The John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army first erupted in the media in April 2002, John Paul II went to Toronto in July and by December 13, Cardinal Law resigned.

Cardinal Bernard Law was the first Cardinal to resign in modern times because the ‘laity of Boston’ had the guts to force him physically -- to get out of their diocese and out-of-their-sight. The laity did a quick and efficient job in ousting Law within the span from April to December 2002. That is a record breaking 9-month to kick-out a Cardinal. The ‘laity of Boston’ should be honoured in the Guinness World Records.

To help pay for settlements to his victims, Law sold the Bishop’s palace to neighbouring Boston College run the Jesuits.

But as reward for his crime, John Paul II promoted Cardinal Law as High Priest of the St, Mary Major Basilica in Rome, the most prestigious of all the basilicas, only next to St. Peter’s Basilica.

By order of John Paul II, Cardinal Law moved from the sold-Bishop’s Palace in Boston to the Vatican Palace, it is only in the Catholic Church that “crime does pay”!

John Paul II and Cardinal Law could quote the Bible like two walking encyclopaedias but they claimed they did not know any single name of a pedophile priest!

John Paul II had neither compassion nor compunction to the Bostonian victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. So he flew Cardinal Law to be beside him in Rome. There, they both could dwell in the lap of luxury at the Vatican Palace and continue to live out-of-touch with victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army www.jp2army.blogspot.com


John Paul II to be beatified soon


According to the Polish News Report in the Polish daily “Dziennik”, John Paul II will be beatified on April 2, 2010. He died on April 2, 2005.

John Paul II was obsessed with preparing his own beatification and canonization that he installed the Vatican saint-factory. His successor and clone, Benedict XVI will soon beatify him see www.pope-ratz.blogspot.com

But history has recorded that John Paul II has a giant millstone tied around his neck.

John Paul II claimed to be “next to God” but towards the end of his life, he became an ugly pope drooling with saliva from his mouth whenever he spoke. Like Lucifer, the brightest of angels, was cast down from heaven by St. Michael the Archangel, John Paul II the great was also cast down with a giant millstone around his neck from his papal throne.


If there are any words of Christ that John Paul II fulfilled, it is the Biblical millstone that was, is and always will be tied to his papal neck, the John Paul II Millstone.


Jesus said: “Temptations, stumbling blocks, enticements are surely to come, but whoever causes one of these little ones to sin, it would be better that a giant millstone would be tied around their neck and they would be thrown into the heart of the sea.” Mark 9:42-50, Luke 7:1-4, Matthew 18:6-10


So posthumously, John Paul II the Great deserves the dishonour as the first member of the Catholic Hall of Shame.

Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America


Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leader

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 6,000 priests - John Paul II

This post is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the martyrdom of the 6 Jesuits of Liberation Theology in El Salvador; it was a theology that John Paul II suppressed. These Jesuits, Ignacio Ellacuria and companions are the ones who should be beatified because they gave their lives to the poorest brethrens of Christ. John Paul II lived a life of luxury and served only the wealthy Catholics. His trips abroad were meant only to amass more wealth for the Vatican Bank.

John Paul II went to Pedophiles' Paradise

John Paul II went to Pedophiles’ Paradise in May 2, 1984, Fairbanks, Alaska. He led a Liturgy of the Word in Fairbanks. It was his third landing in American soil. He said Mass in Anchorage, Alaska in Feb. 26, 1981.

Ironically John Paul II’s first visit to the USA was here in Boston where he connived with Cardinal Law on how to cover-up the priest-pedophilia in the USA. In 1985, Tom Doyle gave his intensive research about priest-pedophilia in New Orleans to John Paul II (see our earlier articles) and he was fired from his job as Chaplain of the US Navy.

This is the list of John Paul II’s 7 trips to the USA. From 1979 to 1999 it covers the span of exactly 20 years until his health became frailer. 20 years is a lot of time to do something to stop priest-pedophilia in the USA – but he did NOTHING. NADA.

1. October 1979: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington
2. Feb. 26, 1981: Anchorage, Alaska
3. May 2, 1984: Fairbanks, Alaska
4. September 1987: Miami, Colombia (South Carolina), New Orleans, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Monterey, Carmel, San Francisco, Detroit
5. August 1993: Denver (World Youth Day)
6. October 1995: Newark, New York, Baltimore
7. January 1999: St. Louis

John Paul II is the most travelled pope in history. He should have seen for himself the most heinous crime against children in Catholic history.

But his obsession to be called “the Great” blinded his Holy See, and as history now proves it, all he could see was his own image in the media, especially on TV where he was like a rock superstar. He had an entourage of photographers and video-recorders of his Masses that drew people by the hundreds of thousands.

He kissed a few well-dressed bathed baby every now and then. Unfortunately, the children who needed him most were out-of-sight and out-of-mind. SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests were forbidden and anathema to his Holy See, Holy Nose and his papal presence. He lived in the ivory tower of the Vatican Palace out-of-touch with reality.

John Paul II wanted to paint a perfect papacy free from Papal Sin and Priest-Pedophilia. But history now proves it, he covered-up his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army see www.jp2army.blogspot.com together with his right hand man then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now Benedict XVI, God’s Rottweiler see www.pope-ratz.blogspot.com.

John Paul II went to Pedophiles' Paradise in Fairbanks in 1984.

John Paul II msut not be called a Blessed nor a Saint in American soil and by American children.

Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America


Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leader

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 6,000 priests - John Paul II

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Racism in Fairbanks: “The Pedophiles’ Paradise”

http://secondrape.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/pedophiles-paradise/

Videos and Letters Expose the Bishop of Fairbanks’ Dirty Fingerprints. He knew kids were being raped and he covered it up.

Or: Father Jim Poole, The Great Lover of the World (his words, not mine)
There’s more to the story of Fr. Jim Poole, SJ, subject of my last post.

Seattle’s weekly paper, The Stranger (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-pedophiles-paradise/Content?oid=1065017), wrote a gripping story about Rachel Mike and other victims of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Fairbanks. The story outlines how dozens of child rapists were sent to Fairbanks to “Get them off the grid” and fill jobs where these men could rape hundreds of Alaska Native kids.
Rachel Mike was one of the kids.

Born in St. Michael (click to read William Lobdell’s LA Times story about the village http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-alaska20051119,0,1873868.story), Rachel, a Yup’ik Eskimo, grew up in abject poverty with alcoholic parents. She often suffered from the effects of starvation. By fifteen, she had tried to kill herself three times. Poole sank his claws into her after her second attempt. She was 14.

He started raping her. Soon, she had gonorrhea and was pregnant.

What did Poole do when he discovered that she was carrying his child? He had a plan: he told the starving child to say that her father raped her. So she did.
Her father went to jail. He died before she was able to tell him the truth. When Rachel came forward in 2004 to name Poole as her abuser, the Diocese of Fairbanks tried to get the case thrown out on the statute of limitations – they weren’t saying that she was lying, they said that she came forward too late.

There was too much proof that Poole was a monster for them to deny Rachel’s story.
The Proof:

– Poole had already been sent to a “Perp Camp” in New Mexico. We have the video of him talking about it – and he tells us that he was “the great lover of the world” (click here to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w41yF8epB-E).

– Around the same time in 1986, another victim was coming forward to complain about Poole. What did Fairbanks Bishop Kaniecki say? “Tried to cover all based, yet not admit anything … Nip this mess in the bud.” (Click here to read
http://secondrape.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/nip-this-mess-in-the-bud-7-16-86.pdf)

– In 1998, Fairbanks Bishop Kaniecki was actively working to erase the memory of Jim Poole by making sure that old KNOM tapes of Poole (used for fundraising) were never played. He was afraid that Poole’s white victims would hear the tapes and come forward and report. According to Kaneicki, white victims coming forward would be “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” and they would see lawsuits and scandal. (Click here to read http://secondrape.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/bishop-kanieck-sj-to-bob-grimm-sj-re-poole-sundborg.pdf). (The letter also throws Seattle University President Fr. Steven Sundborg SJ under the bus)

Conclusion

– We have proof that Poole and dozens of other men molested Alaska Native kids,
– We have proof that the Diocese of Fairbanks knew about it,
– We have proof the Diocese of Fairbanks dumped perps in the Alaska Native Villages,
– We have proof that the Diocese of Fairbanks tried to cover it up,
– We have proof that the Diocese of Fairbanks lied about abuse to victims when they came forward, and
– We have proof that the Diocese of Fairbanks is racist …
So, what is the Diocese going to do about it? They seem to think that offering $5500 to victims will take care of it.

I don’t agree.
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Possibly related posts:
• A Lesson To The Diocese Of Fairbanks: It Doesn’t Pay To Be Racist And The… (http://secondrape.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/a-lesson-to-the-diocese/
• “If anyone knows about child rape, it’s the Diocese of Fairbanks” (http://secondrape.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/if-anyone-knows-about-child-rape-its-the-diocese-of-fairbanks/)
• Is the Diocese of Fairbanks Racist? Part II (http://secondrape.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/is-the-diocese-of-fairbanks-racist-part-ii/)

John Paul II the pope of apathy to be beatified soon

How can a pope who had no compassion nor compunction for any of the thousands of victims of priest pedophiles in the USA and around the world be beatified? Pope John Paul II had more than 26 years to do somthing to stop the stench of priest pedophilia under his Holy See and holy nose. He was the longest reigning pope who lived well hand-in-hand with priest-pedophilia.

For a pope to be able to tolerate the most grevious sin that has affected thousands of children, he cannot be called a blessed or a saint. Most of all, children cannot be praying to him for help because when he was alive, he intentionally refused to help them. Now that he is dead, he cannot help them either.

Pope John Paul II was a pope of apathy towards the children who suffered the most - a living hell - under the bestial lustful hands of priest pedophiles. That is why the more than 6,000 are called aptly his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army www.jp2army.blogspot.com. See how Benedict XVI-Ratzinger God's Rottweiler covered-up the priest-pedophilia www.pope-ratz.blogspot.com

Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America


Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leader

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 6,000 priests - John Paul II

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/6487440/Pope-John-Paul-II-to-be-beatified-within-months.html

Pope John Paul II 'to be beatified within months'

The late Pope John Paul II could be beatified within months, setting him on the path to full sainthood, according to reports in Italy.

By Nick Squires in Rome
Published: 4:50PM GMT 02 Nov 2009

Pope John Paul II: Pope John Paul II 'to be beatified within months'

The late Pope John Paul II could be beatified within months, setting him on the path to full sainthood

The mayor of Rome, who would play a pivotal role in organizing the event, said the beatification of John Paul is expected to take place "at the latest" by 2010.

Speaking on a visit to Krakow, in the former Pope's native Poland, Gianni Alemmano said: "These are internal decisions (for the Vatican) but it is expected to take place at the latest by next year."

Vatican observers say the most likely date for the beatification would be April next year, on the fifth anniversary of the popular Pontiff's death.

Beatification precedes canonisation and involves a complicated process including the verification of miracles attributed to the person being considered.

A miracle normally takes the form of the curing of a disease or affliction which has no scientific explanation. A second miracle is then required for sainthood.
In John Paul's case, the miracle under consideration is said to have taken place when a French nun was cured of Parkinson's disease.

The process leading to sainthood usually takes decades, but Pope Benedict XVI launched the beatification process for John Paul just two months after his predecessor's death on April 5, 2005.

During the summer, the former Pope's spokesman said the beatification process would not be delayed by the publication in Poland of correspondence between John Paul and a female compatriot.

Wanda Poltawska, who was one of a handful of people by the Pope's bedside when he died, published a book with extracts of letters that she exchanged with John Paul, whom she met in 1962 while he was in Krakow. It is due to be published in Italy in February.

There is no suggestion that they had a romantic relationship, but some Roman Catholic Church officials were reportedly annoyed that she had "exaggerated" her friendship with the late pontiff and that the relationship would have to be scrutinised as part of the beatification process.

Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who ran the Vatican press office for 22 years, said there was no special connection between Mrs Poltawska, 88, and the former Pope.