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In Rome, La Repubblica reported Sunday that Pope John Paul II has decided to shelve plans for the beatification of Pope Pius XII next year because of the new allegations that Pius XII didn't do enough to help the Jews of Europe during World War II.
John McCain's beatification by the press.
The paper said the pope "did not want to bring to its conclusion" a beatification "which divided instead of unifying" different religions and cultures.
Beatification, the first step toward sainthood, requires a confirmed miracle, and one has already been "authenticated."
Brock, in case you've forgotten, is that young, gay, conservative investigative sex journalist who specializes in the reverse beatification of liberal saints in the gay-baiting American Spectator . After making his name with a best seller arguing that Anita Hill had mixed up Clarence Thomas with someone else, Brock became even more notorious by breaking, in the pages of the Spectator , the lurid tale that came to be known as "Troopergate."