[Kaslin]

For the biography of the new Saint

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[llevrok]

Larry Bird?

[ichabod1]

Ninety Nine Nuns In An Indiana Nunnery bump

[Cicero]

In that way, she is like many saints who found themselves bucking church authorities while alive, only to be acclaimed as saints after their deaths, said the Rev. Richard McBrien, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame and the author of the 2001 book "Lives of the Saints."

It would have been more accurate to call him Rev. Richard McBrien, dissenting heretic.

There's a big difference between having a difference of opinion with a bishop (whom she nevertheless apparently obeyed) when the bishop is wrong, and having a difference of opinion with a bishop who is speaking in defense of the doctrines of the Church.

McBrien is the second kind of dissenter, unlike this new saint.

[SoCalPol]

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[hnj_00]

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."

"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."

Thank you Oscar Wilde and George Orwell..

[Cousin Eddie]

leave it to the press to work the clergy sex scandal into the second paragraph (heck, it was actually the second sentence) of a story on a saint who lived 160 years ago.

[muawiyah]

Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin is a new one to me. Have to read up on her. On the other hand, there were a number of early French explorer missionaries who came to what is now Indiana who attained the rank of saint ~ my favorite is Father Brebeuf ~ he met his end very nearly the way one of my Protestant ancestors ended his in Peru at the Hands of a new Governor from Spain a century earlier ~ to wit:

"On entering the village, they were met with a shower of stones, cruelly beaten with clubs, and then tied to posts to be burned to death.

Brébeuf is said to have kissed the stake to which he was bound. The fire was lighted under them, and their bodies slashed with knives.

Brébeuf had scalding water poured on his head in mockery of baptism, a collar of red-hot tomahawk-heads placed around his neck, a red-hot iron thrust down his throat, and when he expired his heart was cut out and eaten.

Through all the torture he never uttered a groan. The Iroquois withdrew when they had finished their work.

The remains of the victims were gathered up subsequently, and the head of Brébeuf is still kept as a relic at the Hôtel-Dieu, Quebec."

One does suppose I might have had family in that event too although it seems to me only the Mohawk ate hearts ~ so, probably not.

Life in early America was tough ~ really tough ~ and the people who came here to set up this great country were incredibly tough ~ and they stuck to their mission right down to the end.

Stories of their lives are worth reading and pondering.