Friday, December 13, 2013

Time Magazine: Don't Canonize the Living


TIME Magazine named Adolf Hitler as Person of the Year in 1939. Looking back, that might just have been a bit of a bad call. Stalin won the same award in 1940 and then again in 1942. Well, we all make mistakes!


Henry Kissinger won it in 1972. Lovely man. I think he won that for giving free orange juice to the children of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Well, it was something about orange. Moving swiftly on.
 

Blessed Pope John Paul II won it in 1994.



Blessed Pope John XXIII won it in 1962.



Yet there remains great wisdom in the Church's tradition of canonizing nobody until they are dead.

 Pope Francis has just joined a very mixed bag!


Come, Lord Jesus!

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