Sainthood

In an Age of Celebrities: A True Role Model for Graduates

Noel Irwin Hentschel | Posted 05.11.2012

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In a world more focused on material gain and personal status, let us highlight the fruits of spiritual growth and shared virtues.

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Rising Above Fundamentalism: How Do We Become Saints?

Kemal Argon | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Islam, Interfaith Understanding, Christianity, Sufism, Sainthood, Inter-Religious Dialoge, Religion News

Talking about sainthood is one way to regain a focus back onto spirituality, away from distraction and spiritual poverty.

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The Beatification Of John Paul II And The Express Canonization Protection Program

Michele Somerville | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Canonization, Beatification Process, Roman Catholic Church, Pope Alexander VI, Saint Mary MacKillop, Beatification, Dorothy Day, Sainthood, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, The Borgias, Catholic Church, Religion News

The current pope has much to gain by expediting the canonization of his predecessor. The fanfare that accompanies canonization promises to create a useful diversion for Ratzinger.

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A Plea For Sainthood For Pope John XXIII

Edward Flattau | Posted 07.06.2011

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Although I am not a Catholic, I was among the many outside the Church who found Pope John to be an inspirational figure during his tragically short Vatican tenure in the early 1960's at the height of the Cold War.

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John Paul II's Living Will

Jon M. Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chances are good that we will soon be acknowledging JPII as "Saint," but none of this will make much difference in how Catholics live their lives everyday. There is a more important reason, I think, to remember JPII.

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There's A Good Reason Why Benedict's Not An Organ Donor

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) When Vatican officials announced last week that Pope Benedict XVI's 2005 election render...

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Is John Paul ll Being Fast-Tracked To Sainthood?

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has recognized a miracle attributed to Pope John Paul II, bringing the la...

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John Paul II Moves Closer To First Step Toward Sainthood

Posted 05.25.2011

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It's looking increasingly likely that Pope Benedict XVI will soon move his predecessor one step closer to sainthood by confirming the existence of a m...

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Augustus Tolton, Chicagoan And First Black U.S. Priest, A Candidate For Sainthood

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Legend has it that as a 7-year-old boy, Augustus Tolton escaped slave hunters by rowing with his mother across the Mississippi River to the free state...

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Mass Grave of History: The Vatican's WWII Identity Crisis

Julia Gorin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holy See, Jews, Holocaust, Croatia, Serbia, Wwii, Hitler, Pope Pius XII, Serbs, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, Ante Pavelic, Jared Israel, Bosnia, Catholic Church, Nazis, Genocide, Julia Gorin, Sainthood, Beatification, Vatican, Ustasha, Pope, Religion News

In enshrining the Church's divided World War II loyalties by canonizing the ambivalent pope at the time, the Church would be announcing to the world what it's made of. Pius should be neither demonized nor sanctified.

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Pope John Paul Flagellated Himself, Says 'Why A Saint': Flagellation Definition And Info

Posted 05.25.2011

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Pope John Paul practiced flagellation and flagellated himself to emulate Jesus Christ's suffering, according to "Why A Saint," a book written by Monsi...

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Bestowing Sainthood on Pius XII Ignores a Heinous Past

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even as evidence piled up that thousands of Jews were being shipped to the slaughter in Nazi concentration camps, Pius XII refused to reverse the Vatican's see-no-evil, hear-no-evil political course.

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Miep Gies and Saintliness

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Pius XII, Miep Gies, Archbishop Jules Saliege, Sainthood, Holocaust, Anne Frank, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

The question Roman Catholics should be asking themselves this week is why there hasn't been more talk about someday making Miep Gies --who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis -- a saint.

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Damien de Veuster, Priest Who Aided Lepers In Hawaii, To Become Saint

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

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VATICAN CITY — A 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii, and died of the disease, will be declared a saint thi...

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