Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Thursday, February 18, 2010

Media idiocy...

Is John Paul II's Beatification Process Stalled? - Former Saints' Causes Prefect Clarifies Controversies

"Some journalists have speculated that John Paul II's alleged scourging "might hold up the process of beatification." Others have asserted that the Pope's rigorous penances were the consequence of "mental imbalance.""
In the 'olden' days journalists were supposed to have at least a nodding acquaintance with subjects that they speculated on and that they reported on. Now it's all sensationalism. Anyone who knows anything about the Catholic Church, saints and the history of the Catholic Church would know about mortification of the flesh...


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