Late pope's 'martyrdom' may signal sainthood shortcut

"VATICAN CITY (AP) — The editor of the Vatican newspaper said Thursday that Pope John Paul II was a "martyr" even though he survived a 1981 assassination attempt — the latest official comment suggesting a speedy path to sainthood for the late pontiff."
What's the rush? Why is he worthy of being canonized?
Will he be the patron saint of pederasty? Clearly he did nothing to try to stop the rampant child abuse within the Catholic Church. Globetrotting while his priests pleasured themselves with boy toys, his "Holiness" should be condemned for ignoring the needs of the neediests in his zeal to see that the Roman Catholic Church continue to veer toward capitalism and away from the communalism of the Christic lifestyle.
It's true that near the end of his life he did give some lip service to the need for moderating greed and throttling rampant capitalism. But it was way too little way too late. JP II's unholy alliance with Ronald Reagan served to undermine the authority of the elected government in Nicaragua. When he wagged his finger at Daniel Ortega and chastised the priests who were engaged in the effort to improve the lives of the poor he helped to undermine the Sandinista government. Those who had been exploited by the rampant corruption of the country's ruling class were abandoned by the church.
Tacho Somoza was "our son of a bitch" as FDR is reported to have said it. He understood that government's role is to funnel money to the "have mores." That's the way we do things in America. That's the kind of world we want.
Then these crazy Sandinistas come along and the wacko Jesuits tried to foist that liberation theology on the destitute masses. JP II would have no part of that. The church belongs on the side of the have mores - somebody has to underwrite the papal globetrotting, and it certainly won't be the poor.