<The irony of it is that Francis elevated JP II to sainthood.>
Pope John Paul cheapened the canonization process by accelerating it. The old procedure under which a cause could not advance until a specific number of years after the candidate's death (I think it was 50) better served the church by allowing for the objectivity that comes with the passing of time. When Francis assumed the papacy, John Paul had been dead for only eight years, and his cause was already on his desk. He could have, and should have, declined to proceed; but doing so would have been very difficult for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that the pope who had advanced the cause was (and is) still living. I think Francis would do well to restore the requirement to wait for 50 years; maybe 100 years for a pope.
<I can not think of a prominent person in the RCC that deserves to be emulated less.>
This is exactly the criterion on which canonization ought to turn -- not two miracles!!
re: JP I: I agree.