5734 Re: Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints


(Segnaliamo che una versione riveduta, corretta e corredata di note dell'articolo "Madre Teresa, Giovanni Paolo II, e i Santi in quattr'e quattr'otto" di Michael Parenti - in lingua inglese - è ora leggibile sul nostro sito: 


A revised, corrected, and footnoted version of the article "Mother Theresa, John Paul II, and the Fast Track Saints" is now available at the URL: https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/parenti07.htm


On Oct 25, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia wrote:

Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints 
  

(article published on Common Dreams site in slightly different form, excerpted and adapted from an author's book about God and religion)


 By   Michael Parenti
        
During his 26-year papacy, John Paul II elevated 483 individuals to sainthood, reportedly more saints than all previous popes combined. One personage he beatified but did not live long enough to canonize was Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun of Albanian origin who had been wined and dined by the world’s rich and famous while hailed as a champion of the poor...