Word: sainthood
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...easily miss the irony beneath that sympathy-or, noting it unawares, can find it ambiguous or confusing. Is it any part of Author Greene's purpose that readers should misconstrue the nature of Scobie's sinfulness-misconstrue it, in some cases, all the way to sainthood? Obviously not. But if an author is widely misunderstood, the reader is not usually to blame...
After his death, the mountaineers of De Flue's native Sachseln began saying prayers to him. According to canon law, this would have permanently disqualified him for sainthood: there is a rule that no public prayers may be said to the departed until Rome has approved the beatification. But in 1669 Pope Clement IX delighted even Switzerland's Protestants by cutting ecclesiastical red tape and authorizing Nicolas de Flue's beatification...
...waged a good campaign. He stuck to local issues, made quiet, good-humored speeches, drank beer (which he dislikes) with the boys in the precinct clubs. He emphasized that he was no politician. Said one G.O.P. worker glumly: "Kennelly is running on his sainthood...
About the only thing worrying the Democrats last week was that Kennelly's sainthood might be too convincing for rowdy Chicago. Old Boss Kelly, who would soon retire after 14 years in City Hall, was at pains to tell one & all that Kennelly was "no bluenose" but a "square shooter...
...Thirty-seven antipopes* are listed, the first of whom-Hippolytus of the 3rd Century-is still considered a saint. From four legitimate pontiffs the designation' of sainthood was removed...