MICHAEL KELLY S.J. Making saints.

September 5, 2016

In our dreary world full of incredible people making claims to leadership, finding the occasional hero or heroine can’t be a bad thing. So why begrudge the Catholic Church its idiosyncratic ways of creating people for believers to admire – the saints? Mother Teresa of Calcutta - that’s what it was called when she lived there but let’s call it Kolkata to bring the city’s name up to the present - was canonized by the Pope last weekend. The media around the world found their way to the woman “cured” of her tumor, a cure that was the first...