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11th August 2013, 12:41 PM | #1 |
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Pray for us Saint Gilbert
No word yet on what he's going to be the patron saint of.
Pope blesses plans to make writer of Father Brown stories G.K. Chesterton a saint Daily Mail (UK)
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11th August 2013, 01:00 PM | #2 |
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What miracles did he manage to pull off, then? Isn't that a prerequisite?
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11th August 2013, 01:20 PM | #3 |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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11th August 2013, 02:28 PM | #4 |
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11th August 2013, 04:03 PM | #5 |
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Is this the start of commercialisation of sainthood?
Who might we expect on the list? The blessed Michael Jackson? Saint Teilhard de Chardin? Mickey Mouse? |
11th August 2013, 06:01 PM | #6 |
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MJ and Mickey were Protestants, but why not Teilhard de Chardin?
Didn't he disprove godless evolution or something? |
12th August 2013, 04:19 AM | #7 |
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iSaint Steve of Apple?
McSaint Ronald McDonald? |
12th August 2013, 06:05 AM | #8 |
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Tweet your support for the canonisation of a new patron saint of tablets, notebooks, and phones; sponsored by Samsung: holy reliable, venerable not vulnerable.
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12th August 2013, 06:49 AM | #9 |
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Is that why someone wrote a Young GKC series borrowing from classical literature? I read the one where GKC fought the Martians in War of the Worlds with HG Wells.
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12th August 2013, 08:05 AM | #10 |
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If GK gets to be a saint would that mean that the "Screwtape Letters" have church backing? http://readanybooks.net/fantasticfic...e-Letters.html Like all of GK I liked it a lot when younger. Now. not so much. |
12th August 2013, 08:13 AM | #11 |
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Anyone who has read the Sandman series knows that GK is Fiddler's Green.
Why would he want to be a saint when he's already basically heaven? PS: Wasn't Screwtape C.S. Lewis? Edit after following the link: yes, yes it was. |
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12th August 2013, 08:38 AM | #13 |
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Why are people referring to Mickey Mouse in the past tense?
I didn't even know that he was ill. |
12th August 2013, 08:42 AM | #14 |
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12th August 2013, 06:25 PM | #15 |
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He either went to Heaven without going to Purgatory or he didn't, right?
I don't get how you can "plan" to "make" it so that in 1936 Chesterton bypassed Purgatory and went directly to Heaven. I guess it could just be a case of a popular periodical not quite getting the wording correctly, and that the church is just researching Chesterton to figure out whether there's any reason to think he's definitely not a saint, other than a scarcity of cancer remissions someone decided he was responsible for. Still, I sometimes get the feeling that when the church saints somebody, the people doing the sainting betray the fact that they're ultimately the ones deciding who went where and bypassed what. |
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12th August 2013, 06:43 PM | #16 |
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Oh they'll find something. That part's easy. Usually involves someone claiming to have prayed to the person in question and then being miraculously cured of a disease. The miracles can be performed after death, you see.
Pope John Paul II Supposedly Performed Both Miracles After Death
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Yes, as I recall, those are the three levels on the road to canonization: Veneratus, Beatus, Sanctus. Thus, we have the Venerable Bede and the Blessed Oliver Plunkett, though I think both Bede and Oliver have made it to sainthood by now. I suspect that, should G. K. be made a veneratus, miracles will begin to flow. Maybe someone who's morbidly obese will miraculously slim down after reciting "Lepanto." Although it doesn't seem to have worked for G. K.
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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