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    Pope sets Oct. 12 to make US saints

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has set Oct. 12 as the date to make two U.S. saints: Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian who spent most of her life in what is now upstate New York, and Mother Marianne Cope, who began religious life in the same area but moved to Hawaii to care for leprosy patients.

    Benedict had already approved miracles attributed to the two, the final step toward sainthood. At the end of a ceremony Saturday to make 22 new cardinals — including New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan — Benedict announced the date for canonization of the two women and five others.

    Dolan marveled that his first official act as a cardinal was to formally OK the New York-area saints. He quipped: "As grateful as I am for being a cardinal, I really want to be a saint."

     

    50 comments

    • okaythen  •  3 mths ago
      I am just laughing my butt off at this..."Benedict has approved miracles..."?!?! What the hell is that?! Miracles happen so why does he need to approve of them?! The more I read about the Pope, the more I know that I wouldnt join a catholic church if I was paid to!
    • red  •  3 mths ago
      I believe only God can grante Saint hood, not a man. I'm sure these ladies are already sanits and do not need a poop to make it so. Man or woman have no power over these things. God Bless them both!
    • Rich  •  Virginia City, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      In case anyone is curious, Kateri's Mohawk tribe settled in an area known today as Auriesville, NY, right off the NYS highway. A beautiful shrine was built in her honor, as well as to the several Jesuit Priests who were martyred in the same region.
    • David I  •  3 mths ago
      Thats all very nice but it doesnt come close to making up for decades if not centuries of child abuse in indigenous communities by priests who were 'banished' for molesting kids in more valued (urban) communities.
    • Great Speckled Bird  •  3 mths ago
      St. Santorum is first on the list.
    • Christian M  •  Panama City, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      This guy will do anything to get attention off the financial and sexual child abuse scandals his organization is always involved with.
    • Devon Ritenour  •  Shallotte, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      how is it that a man can creat saints?!
      • Native 3 mths ago
        All religions require that you have faith (naive allegiance) in order to believe outlandish stories. This sainthood stuff is just part of that.
      • JustTheFactsPlease 3 mths ago
        He can't....just thinks he can.
      • THANK EVOLUTION 3 mths ago
        Well just like man created god.... in their imaginations.
    • 2012  •  3 mths ago
      We just celebrated St.Valentines Day and soon will celebrate St. Patricks day! Blessed are all the saints.
    • Royal Ron  •  Pleasanton, California  •  3 mths ago
      Wonderful; the world needs new saints and American Indian; what do all you bigots, racist, prejudice, hateful, ignorant, stupid, commentators have to write that. Since no one in the U,S, ever praised the American Indian only shpt them, killed them, enslaved them. Your hero's are George Armstrong Custer who murdered more Indians than anyone else until finally the Indians got rid of that vain piece of crap. But he had plenty of help like Andrew Jackson who stated the only good Indian is a dead Indian, Tyler, Taylor, etc. all such good examples of a perverse republic or should we call it oligarchy!
      • JustTheFactsPlease 3 mths ago
        Are you having a good day Ron? Don't live in the past, move on my friend. Oh, and the Saint thing; it's no big deal, just the catholic church promotion, that's all.
      • Native 3 mths ago
        "Just the facts please" It is a FACT that if you are intelligente, you can not ignore the past! It is all cause and effect!
      • Bob c 3 mths ago
        It is a FACT that if you were "intelligent" you would know how to spell it, or at least be vaguely familiar with spell check.
    • trubeliever64  •  3 mths ago
      Roman Catholicism is not true Christianity.
    • SullenMoon  •  3 mths ago
      I'm sorry, but the pope cannot make saints. The Bible explicitly says that ALL believers are saints in God's eyes (New Testament). This takes away the pope's authority to do so, and yet he continues to parade around like he can do it. Sad. He touts a section of Christianity that was long ago corrupted by the pagan Roman religion. Nowadays, we can see more of the pagan, and less of Christianity in Catholicism. I've seen priests pray to idols, to dead people, bow down before images of the sun, and drone on in chants that Jesus HIMSELF said would not reach the Father's ears. They're no better than the druids. They will be the ones responsible for some of the new world order aspects.
      • Anthony 3 mths ago
        very well put,i was going to post almost exactly what you said,but you said it so well,that i don't have to..god bless you.
      • Karloff 3 mths ago
        Chief Dagon Shaman of the Babylonian Mystic religion.
      • Bob c 3 mths ago
        Ditto Sullen and Anthony.
    • NICK  •  Corner Brook, Canada  •  3 mths ago
      Oh my!! What an honour!! NOT!!!!!

      Effing Catholic church and all of those other religions should just go straight to HELL!
      Oh, wait... Hell is a fabrication of these religions, so I guess they will not be going anywhere.
      Especially not Heaven. They made that up too!

      All these religions are good for is controlling people, killing people, starting useless wars, lying to everyone, and of course, lets not forget their constant raping of our children.

      Any person who attends a church, mosque, or synagogue only condones and encourages these a**holes to keep doing it!

      Time for the human race to GROW UP!

      Sainthood? Yeah...right.
      • UncommonSense 3 mths ago
        Dude, you got some very bad problems and really should see a psychiatrist or something.
      • NICK 3 mths ago
        Uncommon sense... you should really go see your pedophile priest, and give him a BJ. He might put in a good word for you with the Big Guy!
        Good little sheep. Bend over and take it like a good christian!
      • Fed Up 3 mths ago
        Nick, you are a sick S.O.B. Get some help...now
    • RobertC  •  3 mths ago
      Are saints the ones that have rape children?
    • Wise Old Guy  •  Augusta, Georgia  •  3 mths ago
      Whatever you think of the Catholic Church, this is a wonderful recognition of the role of native Americans in the early (Christian) religious life of this nation. Their contribution is often forgotten.
      • Harold 3 mths ago
        I thought church was about jesus christ and the gift of salvation? ( apparently not)
      • Native 3 mths ago
        It is not a wonderful recognition! So a native woman is said to have reached sainthood, but what about the American Holocaust? This is just an other attempt to mask the atrocities linked to early America (colonialization). For example, in most pre hispanic archeological sites- Spaniards and other European invaders would claim that a miricale had occurred in order to facilitate the conquering of the targeted people. Read David E. Stanard's American Holocaust to get actual numbers. In America, over 100,000,000 million natives have died due to European invasions. "Oh, but let's give them a saint so they shut up and continue in check," said the pope.
      • Bob c 3 mths ago
        You thought correctly Harold.
    • Johnson  •  3 mths ago
      Well maybe they will get to me next year.
    • Hello Again  •  3 mths ago
      What!!! No Obama, no Bill Clinton? I'm crushed...
    • Talos171  •  Seattle, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      This is news because why.
    • jonjojon  •  3 mths ago
      Talk about conceit. It's bad enough that the Catholic Church feels they can ordain Saints when that is something like telling God who to accept as worthy of Heaven and seat among the elect.
    • MeBob  •  3 mths ago
      ST Rick of the holy Sanctimonious church of Santorum...I knew he had another agenda...and here I thought he was just another panty waist nut job..See ..all you no believers what a little singing to your fetus can work ...
    • JAHLOV  •  3 mths ago
      I am a simple man, but supposed I told the Pope a true event, in which Christ held my hand, you think he would believe me.
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