[marshmallow]

Ping!

[OpusatFR]

Will the Litany of the Saints be sung for the Beatification or is that just for Canonization?

The Litany gives me such a spiritual lift! It’s awesome to hear.

PS Marshmallow, so you don’t get FReepmailed too much, you should have made it a caucus thread. ( -;

*not that it means anything anymore apparently.

[SevenofNine]

COOL

I really count the days that when Archbishop Roger Mahoney so out there in CITY OF LA head of Cathoic Church

[antiRepublicrat]

Is it just me, or is this a bit creepy? The guy’s been dead for almost five years, let him rest.

[DManA]

Can anyone explain why there is such a rush to get this done?

[NYer]

Ping!

[webheart]

Piling on the Catholic church... What is it about dead people that you can't just leave them alone? He is in a crypt, where he is to rest until Jesus comes back and resurrects the faithful and good, that is how the story goes. It smacks of a publicity stunt to drag his body out of a crypt to charge admission for 2 million people to walk by it. Maybe they won't charge admission, but you can just about bet the collection basket(s) will be right beside the walkway, there will be ample opportunities to drop a coin or two in.

My mother is a longtime Catholic. She dragged her six kids to church every Sunday for years and years. She left us in the pews and went to the back of the church to cry because those four boys of hers wouldn't sit still and be quiet. Poor woman. Anyway, she had this locket with a little bit of what looked like a bone fragment in thee, which she called a relic, and it was supposed to be a little piece of some saint's body. I don't know if it was real, but she thought it was. I wasn't the only one in existence, so I assume that it may be a common practice amongst Catholics to hold on to some physical piece of a historic church figure. Talk about being parted out!