Is the upcoming October canonization of Mgr. Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer to be considered infallible or not?
The huge number of the present Pontiff’s canonizations have certainly been a great concern to us. For the traditional rules contained in Canon Law, to prevent any possibility of error or of canonization of a person whose Faith and life were not perfectly exemplary, have been done away with, and replaced with much less demanding rules. However, hitherto they have been all pre-Vatican II Saints, and very holy Catholics. But the projected canonization of the founder of the Opus Dei is different. For he it was who anticipated and developed thirty years before Vatican II a revolutionary, new, secular theology of the laity, and accepted the principle of pluralism, accepting into the Opus Dei men of every faith and religion. (Cf. Opus Dei, A Strange Pastoral Phenomenon, Angelus Press.)This indifferentism cannot be considered, according to any traditional guidelines, as an example of sanctity. It is indeed accepted by the theologians as theologically certain that the Church is infallible in th
