...The idea has been raised and certainly has merit. Read some thoughts here...
One suggestion is that he should be honoured as the "Doctor of Mercy" but that title really belongs also to St Faustina...
St John Paul's teachings on marriage, family, the male/female sacranmental bond, the "nuptial meaning" of the Eucharist, and the "theology of the body", along with his work on freedom, inter-religious dialogue, and the centrality of truth, are all of huge importance. His Trinitarian emphasis, at the core of all his teachings, is of significance.
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I'm not sure a Pope is qualified to be a doctor of the Church. He's protected from heresy by the Holy Spirit. So he's constrained in how he can speculate about theology. If he can't be proved wrong, on what basis can we say he invented a new teaching that was his own?
A doctor has to propose something, it's got to be tested by the Church, then either accepted or rejected (but regarded as fruitful).
You must be having a laugh. He believed in Universal Salvation.
Universal salvation isn't a heresy. No-one, not even Hitler or Judas, has been declared to be in Hell. The heresy is to say that nothing is necessary for salvation.
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