catgate Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6962128.ece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 http://www.timesonli...icle6962128.eceI hadn't better make any comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Link leads to an error page. I wanted to read it because I thought it might be notification of his appearance in court for waging illegal warfare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Link leads to an error page. I wanted to read it because I thought it might be notification of his appearance in court for waging illegal warfare./>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6962128.ece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Still leads to error page, but I seem to have a lot a problems with Times links - all other UK papers OK though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Maybe the article has now been removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Still leads to error page, but I seem to have a lot a problems with Times links - all other UK papers OK though.I can still get it.From The TimesDecember 19, 2009John Paul II closes in on sainthood at a miraculous paceRuth Gledhill Religion Correspondent * 14 CommentsRecommend? (3)Pope John Paul IIJohn Paul II, who died in 2005. Even Mother Teresa was not beatified for six yearsThe Pope is expected tomorrow to declare his predecessor John Paul II “venerable” in the first of three official stages that the previous pontiff will take on his fast-track journey towards sainthood.The late Pope will then be beatified next October, the month after the Venerable John Henry Newman is beatified by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Britain, taking the 19th-century divine a step closer to becoming England’s first non-martyr saint since the Reformation.Cardinal Newman died in 1890, meaning that it will have taken him 120 years to be beatified, the second stage towards canonisation, for which a necessary miracle, the healing of a lay deacon in the US, was ratified this year. Another miracle must be found, and it could take many years more, for him to be canonised............etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Still leads to error page, but I seem to have a lot a problems with Times links - all other UK papers OK though.I can still get it.From The TimesDecember 19, 2009John Paul II closes in on sainthood at a miraculous paceRuth Gledhill Religion Correspondent * 14 CommentsRecommend? (3)Pope John Paul IIJohn Paul II, who died in 2005. Even Mother Teresa was not beatified for six yearsThe Pope is expected tomorrow to declare his predecessor John Paul II "venerable" in the first of three official stages that the previous pontiff will take on his fast-track journey towards sainthood.The late Pope will then be beatified next October, the month after the Venerable John Henry Newman is beatified by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Britain, taking the 19th-century divine a step closer to becoming England's first non-martyr saint since the Reformation.Cardinal Newman died in 1890, meaning that it will have taken him 120 years to be beatified, the second stage towards canonisation, for which a necessary miracle, the healing of a lay deacon in the US, was ratified this year. Another miracle must be found, and it could take many years more, for him to be canonised............etc To be honest I can't see any point in it.Bye the way, I can access the link too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 To be honest I can't see any point in it.You have never read the small print.It says that if you get to be a saint you can:-Have your breakfast in bed.Play bowls all year round.Do not need to do the washing up.Get a handsome pension for eternity.That must be better than becoming a Stoker 2nd class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 To be honest I can't see any point in it.You have never read the small print.It says that if you get to be a saint you can:-Have your breakfast in bed.Play bowls all year round.Do not need to do the washing up.Get a handsome pension for eternity.That must be better than becoming a Stoker 2nd class.But you forgot that you need to be dead for a few years to get all those benefits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 But you forgot that you need to be dead for a few years to get all those benefitsWell of course, I assumed that everyone knew that.I can only recall one who was made a Saint whilst he was alive, and that was St Francis.......but he was a sissy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 To be honest I can't see any point in it.You have never read the small print.It says that if you get to be a saint you can:-Have your breakfast in bed.Play bowls all year round.Do not need to do the washing up.Get a handsome pension for eternity.That must be better than becoming a Stoker 2nd class.I prefer outdoor bowls in the summer, I tried indoor in the winter for four years and found it boring.I don't like eating in bed.I never wash up, that's what we bought a dish washing machine for.We get by fine on our various pensions.If I was a stoker I would be first class, not second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 To be honest I can't see any point in it.You have never read the small print.It says that if you get to be a saint you can:-Have your breakfast in bed.Play bowls all year round.Do not need to do the washing up.Get a handsome pension for eternity.That must be better than becoming a Stoker 2nd class. I prefer outdoor bowls in the summer, I tried indoor in the winter for four years and found it boring.I don't like eating in bed.I never wash up, that's what we bought a dish washing machine for.We get by fine on our various pensions.If I was a stoker I would be first class, not second.It's a good job you won't get one then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted December 26, 2009 Report Share Posted December 26, 2009 Some of us prefer being sinners. I know the wages of sin are death, but the hours are good, and the perks are OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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