Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AFFAIR This may be Graham Greene's best novel; surely Neil Jordan's starkly disciplined film is the best screen adaptation of any of Greene's fictions. An account of a slightly slutty woman's unlikely transformation into something like sainthood, it is acted with stunning austerity by Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes...
...daughter Virginia is an unusual candidate for feminist sainthood. She was the first of Galileo's illegitimate children, born to his Venetian mistress Marina Gamba. Virginia and her younger sister had no social standing and no marital future. They were cloistered at the Convent of San Matteo, located near Galileo's home in the outskirts of Florence. A son, Vincenzio, frittered away his youth and musical talent before settling down to raise a family...
...feud over Pius is likely to intensify as he moves closer to sainthood; his beatification could occur by next year. Jewish groups are increasingly hostile to it, and the Vatican is increasingly resentful of their critiques. But debate should be welcome. It illuminates previously neglected episodes in the life of this prospective saint. And it alerts us to flaws in the received version, as when, defending Pius against Cornwell last week, at least one cleric reached again for the story of the Dutch reprisals...
...seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement. The real test might be, Did she inspire followers, skeptics and even opponents to larger acts of kindness or greater visions of possibility? If the church demands hard evidence of a miracle for sainthood, the transformation of many hearts might make the strongest case...
...Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla, who reportedly was told he'd someday be Pope. As Cracow's auxiliary bishop, Wojtyla asked Padre Pio to pray for a friend with cancer; she recovered, and is still alive. In 1983 the Pontiff put him on the path to sainthood, and the final step of canonization could come within the next decade...