NCR reports today the likely beatification of John Paul II in 2011. Apparently doubts about the veracity of a miracle attributed to the late pope have been resolved by the Vatican's medical consultors. Another miracle will be required for canonization.

Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).

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