{"id":38101,"date":"2013-07-02T19:33:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T01:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/instant-sainthood.html"},"modified":"2013-07-03T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T20:06:17","slug":"instant-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/instant-sainthood.html","title":{"rendered":"Instant Sainthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sorry — I'm a big believer in letting history judge. \u00a0Don't build civic structures and name them after live people. \u00a0Don't vote on "The Best\/Worst President" including anyone who was in office the last twenty-five years. \u00a0And for saints<\/i> — I'd say wait a century and see; the Church can afford the long game, and it would certainly eliminate the smell of politics and populism.<\/p>\n

At least, that's how I'd<\/i> run the Catholic Church.<\/div>\n

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Vatican panel clears John Paul II for sainthood<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sorry — I'm a big believer in letting history judge. \u00a0Don't build civic structures and name them after live people. \u00a0Don't vote on "The Best\/Worst President" including anyone who was in office the last twenty-five years. \u00a0And for saints — I'd say wait a century and see; the Church can afford the long game, and … Continue reading “Instant Sainthood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,27,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religion","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10554,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/23\/so_long_and_thanks_for_al.html","url_meta":{"origin":38101,"position":0},"title":"So long, and thanks for all the (loaves and) fish","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Dec-06 12:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Y'know, after all the ongoing brouhaha by conservative parishes and parishioners within the Episcopal Church, I am more joyful than saddened (though a bit of both) by the votes of...","rel":"","context":"In "Religion"","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8992,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/ha_ha_hee_hee_i.html","url_meta":{"origin":38101,"position":1},"title":"Ha ha, hee hee, it is to laugh","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Mar-06 11:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Um ... guys ... a \"joke\" is \"rearrange the letters on the church marquee to say a dirty word,\" or putting a \"Buddy Christ\" up on the altar for Sunday...","rel":"","context":"In "Religion"","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27700,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/reinhold-niebuhr-on-the-separation-of-church-and-state.html","url_meta":{"origin":38101,"position":2},"title":"Reinhold Niebuhr on the separation of church and state","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-May-12 11:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"From an interview with Mike Wallace in April 1958:\"The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn\u2019t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. 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