Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
Until the 12th Century saints were created quickly and easily by popular acclaim or by decree of local bishops. But by the decrees of Pope Urban VIII in 1625 and 1634, the process of canonization began to be tightened. Today the barriers to sainthood, both ecclesiastical and financial, are formidable. So expensive is the long church inquiry that Catholic Biographer Theodore Maynard says: ". . . It might seem that nobody (however holy) has much chance of being canonized today who does not belong to a religious order prepared to pay the costs, unless he can arouse such popular enthusiasm as to have...
Ordinarily, no step toward sainthood can be taken until the "Servant of God" in question has been dead at least 50 years. In Francesca Cabrini's case this requirement was waived by direct action of Pope Pius XI; her process started ten years after her death in 1917, giving her one of the quickest canonizations of modern times. (Three others were proclaimed saints at the Vatican ceremonies last week: Jeanne-Elizabeth Bichier des Ages, a French nun who died in 1838; Bernardino Realini, an Italian Jesuit, who died in 1616; John de Britto, Portuguese missionary martyred in India...
...that book by Georges Bernanos in the Religion department [TIME, Oct. 5]. He is a Frenchman in the spirit of his great tradition which started not in 1791 but in the feudal days when the spirit of France shot up and gushed forth like a fountain. That "honor and sainthood are his two absolutes" reminds me of that French sea captain in Conrad's Lord Jim, who on diagnosing Jim's trouble in the Patna affair, finishes "the honor, monsieur! . . . The honor . . . that is real" and goes away-his shabby cape swinging...