Wife is pleased even though she is no longer Catholic! :laugh:
As a child in Italy, she said John XXIII was already referred to as a living Saint by most people. She does have one strop with him - she wanted to wear a pretty dress for her first communion. He'd made a call for simplicity, so she had to wear a very plain one! :laugh:
Ah....Cardinal Roncolli, iirc.
I was an altar boy while Pope Pius XII was alive. Always thought he was overlooked, but perhaps the WW had an effect on his biography.
Tribute my maternal grandmother, a Sicilian who wore a rosary around her neck for following Pope John XXIII. We could tell he was 'special'.
Hoping that these canonizations aren't another example of Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize a week after he was inaugurated. Lowering the bar.....etc.
I was an altar boy while Pope Pius XII was alive. Always thought he was overlooked, but perhaps the WW had an effect on his biography.
Tribute my maternal grandmother, a Sicilian who wore a rosary around her neck for following Pope John XXIII. We could tell he was 'special'.
Hoping that these canonizations aren't another example of Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize a week after he was inaugurated. Lowering the bar.....etc.
From what I have read I don't know what they have done to deserve sainthood...at least from what I was taught about the Saints.
From what I have read I don't know what they have done to deserve sainthood...at least from what I was taught about the Saints.
A saint is a person who does the One Thing for God.
John XXIII invented the concept "pastoral," that is, adapting Church teachings to modern practice. His Council has changed the Church for the better and enabled it to be more effective.
John Paul II made it his mission to spread the Gospel to every part of the globe. He did that well, and his personal style touched more people than any other human being who lived in the latter half of the 20th century-----maybe ever.
Both good men, even great men.
I thought to become a Saint a miracle had to been accredited to you....or martyrdom, or serving your faith at some personal risk or visions of Mary etc the only thing worthy of Sainthood
I thought to become a Saint a miracle had to been accredited to you....or martyrdom, or serving your faith at some personal risk or visions of Mary etc the only thing worthy of Sainthood
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While I think it's wonderful...for those of us alive while they walked...it still seems more like a Roman Catholic Hall of Fame, than a member of Sainthood.
Like Myst said...it's weird for those of us who grew up being taught miracles must happen and be witnessed, etc.,