VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican “the saint factory”.Now, the Polish pope’s own legacy is under a shadow and some Catholics are asking if declaring him a saint in 2014, a record nine years after his death, may have been a hasty decision. Last week, the Vatican issued its report on ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a star of the U.S. Church who was expelled from the priesthood last year after an internal investigation found him guilty of sexual abuses of minors and adults and abuse of power. It showed that John Paul had promoted McCarrick in 2000 to be archbishop of Washington DC despite persistent rumours of sexual misconduct, believing his personal denial and overruling several senior Church officials who had advised him against it. The report rekindled a debate between John Paul’s defenders and detractors that had accompanied his canonisation - an official recognition that a person lived and died in such an exemplary manner that they are with God in heaven and worthy of public veneration - or “cult” - across the Church. “Saints are human beings, and saints, in their humanity, can be deceived,” wrote papal biographer George Weigel.