That canonisations are infallible is a commonly received opinion, with which I have no disagreement. However, the prudence of canonisations is an entirely different matter. The rush to canonise Popes John XIII, John Paul the Small, and Paul VI, is an attempt to 'canonise' the Second Vatican Council, a disaster for the Church. Saints are (or were!) intended as role models. To hold these men up as role models is an absurd attempt to undermine the Church.
Since 1800, there have been 16 Popes. Only one of them had been canonised prior to this frenzy of canonisations, St Pius X, who would have difficulty in being canonised today. He was, after all, the 'Hammer of Modernists', the theological and philosophical ancestors of the men trying to destroy the Church today.
In the last few years, every Pope since 1958 has been canonised except for Pope John Paul I, and he is on track, having been declared Venerable last October by Francis.
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