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Thread ID: 13755 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-05-17
2004-05-17 10:26 | User Profile
Anti-Abortion Icon Among Six New Saints
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Writer
May 16, 2004, 11:21 PM EDT
VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II named six new saints Sunday, including a woman who became a symbol for abortion opponents because she refused to end her pregnancy despite warnings that it could kill her.
The Vatican has long championed the case of Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian pediatrician who died in 1962 at the age of 39 -- a week after giving birth to her fourth child. Doctors had told her it was dangerous to proceed with the pregnancy because she had a tumor in her uterus, but she insisted on carrying the baby to term.
In proclaiming her a saint, John Paul praised her "extreme sacrifice" and her simple but profound message.
"May our era rediscover, by the example of Gianna Beretta Molla, the pure, chaste and fertile beauty of conjugal love, lived as a response to the divine calling," he said.
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[url]http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-vatican-saints,0,6354094.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines[/url]
2004-05-17 15:13 | User Profile
I for one deplore this Pope's ridiculous "McSaints". With Sunday's ceremony, he has proclaimed 482 saints in his 25-year pontificate, [U]more than all his predecessors over the past 500 years combined[/U].
I suppose it gives him what he craves most--media. And it gives him something to do other that stand by and watch as the Church auto-destructs.
2004-05-21 03:10 | User Profile
If it isn't someone who refused to get an abortion when her life is in danger, it's someone who converted to Catholicism to hide her Chosen identity during the "H" word (Edith Stein).
The Pope made making faux saints an art form.