Vatican: "Report on John Paul II Sainthood Ready"

Talk about simultaneously one of the easiest and most difficult jobs to have - officially documenting the heroic virtues of Pope John Paul II for his canonization cause, which just took another significant step:

The church official spearheading the cause to make Pope John Paul II a saint said Monday he has finished a roughly 2,000-page draft of a report supporting the late pontiff's canonization.

Two days before the Vatican marks the third anniversary of John Paul's death, Monsignor Slawomir Oder told Vatican Radio that he has turned over the report to the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

The report summarizes and analyzes all the documentation about John Paul's life and virtues that had been gathered since his 2005 death, including testimony from witnesses and his own writings.

[More from the Associated Press.]

And I'm sure that 2,000 pages leaves plenty to explore in the footnotes!

update: DoubledayReligion has released a video of John Allen answering some related questions: