Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican announced that Giuseppe Sarto, who as Pius X was Pope from 1903 to 1914, will be canonized next May the 78th Pope to achieve sainthood, and the first since 1712.* ¶The Rev. Hubert Thornton Trapp, vicar of London's Anglican Church of St. Mary. Magdalene, challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury to "come out into the open" about Freemasonry. Declaring in his parish magazine that "the Christians' God and the Masons' God are not one and the same . . . the two loyalties are in conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman...
...with, Benedictine Graham finds Merton's approach to mysticism, i.e., "the highest form of union with God to which man can attain on earth," at once too rigid and too loose. It is too rigid because Merton implies that the monastic, ascetic life is the only way to sainthood. It is too loose because he implies that the monastic ideal can be realized by almost anybody. "Merton ... is in fact a propagandist of mysticism for the masses...
From Vatican City came a report that talk of sainthood for Christopher Columbus is still going on. The movement began, said the New York Herald Tribune, more than 100 years ago, when a study of Columbus, published by Count Roselly de Lorgues, attracted the attention of Pope Pius IX. The Archbishop of Bordeaux later petitioned the Pope to begin the process of beatification of Columbus on the basis of his "humility, obedience, gentleness, resignation, charity, conformity to the divine will" and other virtues. Through the years, added the Tribune, the canonization of Columbus has been held up mostly because...
...wish there were a great saint in the United States, Dominican and Negro, a saint such as St. Francis of Assisi who could inspire a whole generation of youth and create in this country spiritual forms as universally intelligible as the music of Harlem: sainthood in blue...
...Affair, by Graham Greene. A shocker about an adulterous love that leads to sainthood (TIME...