[ultima ratio]

No, let's not. You claimed when I write about this Pope I sound like the Democrats when they oppose Bush. I assume you mean they attacked Bush unfairly--and that I do the same with the Pontiff. So I ask again--how do I do this? How have I been unfair in my criticism?

[RobbyS]

The unfairness in this particular is that there is no truly traditional way of choosing saints. or rather discovering them. The martyrs are the easiest, but as you know it was a longwhile before confessors made the cut, and through the centuries many suspect ones were included in the cult. But maybe the ignorant peasants who observed and marveled at some obscure but holy life and made pilgrimage to their graves were truest witnesses and canonists after all.