Related
Translate
Previous entry: Appeals Court Rules on Tea
Next entry: Judge Throws Out Falun Gong Suit Against Former Chinese Leader
Get RNB via RSS
 |
RNB's RSS feed What is this? |
Get RNB via Email
 |
 Subscribe by Email What is this? |
Follow: Twitter
Most Popular
This Week:
- Guyana’s Jonestown suicide site gets plaque
- Scientology practices ‘putting people at risk’
- Recession: Muslim schools in UK under threat of closure
- World’s oldest ocean-going passenger ship, ministry ship Doulos, to stop sailing
- Scientology’s feet held to the fire in Australia: Struggle between a church and the state
- 1-year prison term for man who participated in cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites
- Australian police take up complaints about Scientology
- ‘World’s biggest animal sacrifice’ begins
- Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror
- Pakistan Militants Bomb CD Shop For Selling ‘Jesus Film’
Mother Teresa Sainthood Moves Forward Next Month
More articles on this topic: Catholic ChurchThe Vatican, possibly at the urging of Pope John Paul II, reportedly considered taking the unprecedented step of declaring Mother Teresa blessed and a saint in a single ceremony.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican secretary of state, made the proposal in a letter sent in late spring to cardinals who head Vatican departments, Italian news agencies reported this week. The reaction, however, was negative.
Although the pope has the power to act on his own initiative, he apparently was reluctant to reject the cardinals’ advice. It was unclear whether he gave up on the idea or delayed making a final decision.
John Paul will beatify Mother Teresa on Oct. 19 at a Mass in St. Peter’s Square, climaxing a week of celebrations of the 25th anniversary of his election as pope on Oct. 16, 1978. To declare her a saint at the same time would break with almost five centuries of tradition.
As it is, the widely admired nun, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for ministering to “the poorest of the poor,” will be beatified in record time — little more than six years after her death on Sept. 5, 1997, at the age of 87.
To speed up Mother Teresa’s cause, the pope waived the normal five-year interval between a death and the start of the process. He also permitted the examination of a “scientifically unexplainable” miracle attributed to Mother Teresa’s intervention to be carried out at the same time as the investigation into her “heroic virtues.”
What You Can Do From Here
|
Read More Articles On These Topics
Share, Blog About, Bookmark, or Email This Article
Subscribe
Read Another Article
Previous entry: Appeals Court Rules on Tea Next entry: Judge Throws Out Falun Gong Suit Against Former Chinese Leader
RNB Homepage with latest headlinesFind Related Information
Find Related Books
|
Share This Article
To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:
