Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reason to Lament His Canonization
The only good that I find in a St. Serra is that it could force us all to meditate on the ambivalence that haunts Christianity in this hemisphere.
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Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?
At a moment when the pope is cracking down on apparitions and limiting Marian devotion why this apparition, and not other literally countless reports that pop up in the news every year?
Read MoreVatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety
Lost in (and sullied by) the sexual scandals is the Church’s investigation into an apparition of Mary.
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Patron Saint of AIDS/HIV To Be Canonized
Father Damien de Veuster was a Belgian priest who ministered to a community of exiles on the island of Molokai. He has been, for many years, the unofficial patron saint of AIDS/HIV, a disease that has a history of misunderstanding akin to that of the illness he himself died of—Hansen’s disease, or leprosy.
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