[Mrs. Don-o]

Almost all Catholic Churches / parishes could be considered "shrines" for some holy person, human or angelic, in the sense that they are named and dedicated to, e.g. St. John the Baptist, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Mary, etc. And Pope John Paul II *is* a canonized saint.

All this honor of saints is to the greater glory of God.

[LouieFisk]

I don’t go with the reasoning - but since I’m not Catholic, it’s neither here if I go along with it or not. :)
From what I understand this is actually more of a “favorite son” honor by the Poles. And they got good reason to be proud.
I would’ve gone with just a statue.

[cloudmountain]

Almost all Catholic Churches / parishes could be considered "shrines" for some holy person, human or angelic, in the sense that they are named and dedicated to, e.g. St. John the Baptist, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Mary, etc. And Pope John Paul II *is* a canonized saint.
All this honor of saints is to the greater glory of God.

Yes, indeed.
WELL put.