Beatification of Pope Paul VI Beatification of Pope Paul VI The cause for the canonization of Pope Paul VI, who died in 1978, commenced in 1993 and he was canonized on October 14, 2018. After having been proclaimed a Servant of God and declared Venerable, he was beatified on 19 October 2014, after the recognition of a miracle had been attributed to his intercession, and declared a saint by Pope Francis I on October 14, 2018. The postulator of the cause is Antonio Marrazzo while the vice-postulator is Antonio Lanzoni. On 18 March 1993 "nihil obstat" ("nothing against") was declared under Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II's political views and against man.”" The Pope also reaffirmed the Church's existing teaching on gender in relation to transsexuals, as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which he supervised, made clear that transsexuals can not serve in church positions. In an address on 22 October 1996, to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope John Paul II reaffirmed the Church's openness to the theory of evolution: In the same address, the Pope rejected any theory of evolution that provides a materialistic explanation for the human soul: John Paul II also wrote to the "Pontifical Academy of Sciences" on the subject of