I am amazed that her beatification came just six years after her death. Usually the Catholic Church moves very s l o w l y on such matters.

The churches--meaning not just Catholic--would be of greater help to the poor were they to pay their fair share of taxes just like mostly-honest people and corporations. I say that because while one might argue the taxes on money given to churches has been paid by the giver, that fails under scrutiny because those same givers are entitled to receipts for tax purposes that essentially cause others to pay more in tax than they otherwise would.

I will never understand why she was so honoured. She did some seriously bad stuff in her pursuit of something or other, but had she not been beatified she'd likely be remembered by history as another Lucrezia Borgia. I am not wise enough to know whether the good she did outweighed the bad, but I am wise enough to know that saints ain't supposed to come from neocons and capitalists, and she was both. Of course, the world being what it is today I'm not surprised. We've come to revere money and remain subservient to the power money buys, so shocked I'm not.

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I'm very disappointed that the Pope visited and encouraged Kim Davis. Made his visit seem tawdry. If there really is a division of church and state, the division line sure is getting blurry.