As someone who was raised Roman Catholic, and who had more relatives in the clergy of same than most talking heads of today, I know that you are supposed to perform miracles during your lifetime on earth...not before or afterward...for them to count towards canonization; the plain fact is, many modern Catholics are so distant from acts and writings of John Paul II, on perception they fear it will mean cutbacks to their laic exercises of power as government faith-fund discriminators, they have to look to what otherwise would be called faith in animism.

A Rosary is a sacramental, and usually blessed by a Priest, but has no more inherent supernatural powers than say a dog blessed in re St. Francis, or a basket blessed for Easter. Until 500 or so years ago, the Rosary was called a "Pater Noster", because that's what one said on each bead; when Blessed Louis De Montforte and St. Dominic averred Mary had asked them to construct it as the modern Rosary, one said an "ave Maria" on each of ten small beads in each of five decades, and an "Our Father" on the big beads separating each decade...insofar as the manifest decades are concerned; each decade represents a faith mystery under a larger mystery label for each Rosary said. The mysteries are: Joyful (subs annunciation, Mary telling Elizabeth about it, birth of Jesus, presentation of Jesus in temple, finding Jesus after three days lost), Sorrowful (agony in the garden, flogging, crown of thorns, carrying cross, Crucifixion), and Glorious (Resurrection, Ascension, Holy Spirit, Mary's assumption, Mary made queen of Heaven); John Paul II added a fourth set: Luminous (Baptism of Jesus, Cana, Kingdom of God, Transfiguration, and Last Supper). One meditates on each such mystery or sub-mystery per each Rosary said, and usually offers the Rosary for the prayerful intercession of Mary to God will come to pass; originally St. Dominic had it that one would receive a 500-day absolution of sins for each Rosary said, but the Church later removed the Rosary as a penance device in its own right on grounds not only would God not respond to malicious or self-centered Rosary petitions, but the very fact one could be malevolent and be absolved for Rosary prayer seemed to be counter-productive. In any event, the physical Rosary or its blessing by clergy do not turn it into a magic wand, and never did.

Enter USA media coverage from FOX to others, such as at http://news.aol.com/article/did-late-pope-cure-ohio-shooting-victim/412121; Popes have given out gazillions of Rosaries, and to say "hey, globally, a dozen or so post mortem J2P2 models were in possession of a dozen or so afflicted, so maybe he IS a miracle worker" is as silly as saying they all wore underwear, or owned a USA/any other flag, shopped at Wal-Mart, and so on; it sidesteps the need for a proven miracle in the presence of a living proposed saint's in their time, and says that somehow John Paul II or anyone other than God works through some Rosary (and Rosaries only!) which emits supernatural powers...um, likely to the purest of souls and most devout to prayer and Church and mankind without exclusions.

But that can't be it; those raised Catholic know Saints only offer prayerful intercession as a prayer partner for those without or amid others, and each is only called upon based on what God used HIS power through them to do DURING THEIR EARTHLY LIFETIMES...with hopes that God will so imbue someone else for a similar plaint.

Thus, to say a "relic" of someone not yet even demonstrated to have done anything miraculous, let alone a "relic" of a canonized Saint, has itself been a post mortem act of a human decedant is to reject God as THE source of every miracle, not totems or people, and ala animism necessarily implies God's Spirit or the decedant's spirit dwells in the artifact...a huge rejection of established even Roman Catholic doctrine and Gospel teachings; perhaps ala South Africa and Ernest Angely Ministry claims inter alia they heal AIDS by "anointed hands chosen by God", http://wakanaka.blogspot.com/2007/03/ernest-angley-sad-shadow-of-miracle-man.html , one should look to see how many are similarly situated in distress and "piety", then factor how often a "miracle" happens to prove a God already proven exists.

It may have to do more with politically connected and faith-fund mongering lay control freaks why fewer than 1 in 4 USA Christians are Catholic...clergy and the Vatican rarely insist you BETTER not just be analogous to Christ's simple messages, and BETTER kiss this club's rings and toys, or you can bank on trouble...from those in the laity, and the government officials they coo with.