"...100 years"
Above is a stained glass of "Servant of G-d" Dorothy Day. She was an activist, a journalist, a radical, a bohemian. Now "Servant".
One of the steps to Sainthood.
Being an outsider that actually thought that being kind non-violent, and feeding, and housing the poor was what faith was about.
Being an outsider that actually thought that being kind non-violent, and feeding, and housing the poor was what faith was about.
She's likely 50 to 100 years away from actual sainthood. More conventional figures are on much faster tracks. Jew killers slavers witch burners were all fast tracked to sainthood. There's a reason so many art pieces of the Middle Ages depicted priests bishops, and certain saints in hell.
Live Saints are always a problem for the Church. ...for any faith really.
The keep pointing out that their business model has nothing to do with faith hope or any real charity.
Dead one’s are perfect.
You can make them say anything you want. A Saint Dorothy clearly would be a difficulty alive or dead so they’ll put here off for as many centuries as they can.
Sounds like I should learn something about her.
ReplyDeleteShe was a pain in the butt to everyone, but then saints are.
ReplyDeleteUnlike most catholic layity she took the notion of mercy kindness, and charity as the centers of the faith.
Those as opposed to Jew hate genocide of smaller sects enslavement wars, and other hobbies da lawd smiles on.
Which is why it'll be another century or two before sainthood...if ever.
Jew killers slavers witch burners were all fast tracked to sainthood. There's a reason so many art pieces of the Middle Ages depicted priests bishops, and certain saints in hell.