Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most living saints, activists or no, of course do get down on their knees and pray, some for hours a day. In the traditional concept of sainthood, in fact, prayer is an essential condition of sanctity, the key to the deeds that surround it. Most of today's saintly people would agree that the concept has not changed...
Perhaps the best definition of sainthood is one that draws remarkable agreement: the saint as a window through which another world is glimpsed, a person "through whom the light of God shines." It is just that light that many see in Mother Teresa...
...simple, open-hearted man, who plays with children, shuns grown women -with an aversion that seems less priestly chastity than schoolboy prudery). To keep Bekla's economy prosperous, the Ortelgans revive a particularly obnoxious slave trade dealing in children. Kelderek, his mind on the possibilities of sainthood, thoughtlessly gives his approval of this abomination. Thus morally undermined, the bear cult deteriorates until enemies threaten Bekla. The bear Shardik is wounded, escapes to the countryside, kills an evil slave trader, then dies himself. After some hideous adventures, Kelderek atones for his misrule, marries a beautiful but slightly soiled virgin priestess...
...night a diminutive arab sheik checked into the grand hotel with his harem and invited him up for a tiring evening. Even the priests are allowed to join Fellini's beatific vision. Foolish as the churchmen are, Aurelio's termagant wife turns out to be the genuine image of sainthood...
...Church of Rome does not need is another saint on its calendar. I am convinced that Rome is fiddling while the world burns; the Vatican still clings tenaciously to its medieval "canonization" process, whatever that term means today. Relics, miracles wrought in the name of the person considered for sainthood, etc., ad infinitum, all seem embarrassingly anachronistic. When will the Vatican face up to vital issues threatening the Roman communion? Why does Pope Paul carefully avoid issues like celibacy for diocesan clergy and ordination of women to the priesthood...