Pope Benedict XVI canonised five new saints this Sunday, one of whom was Father Damien who worked with the lepers in Hawaii in the nineteenth century.
We have five new saints to intercede for us.
But according to the popular press, that's not what's important.
Obama, who was born and spent part of his childhood in Hawaii, has said he
remembers stories about Damien caring for people suffering from leprosy, also
known as Hansen's disease, and its stigma.
Pope Benedict, successor of Saint Peter who himself was appointed by Jesus to be the rock upon which the Church is built, doesn't need empty platitudes to celebrate the cause of a saint who gave the rest of his life to the sick and forgotten. That can't be stressed enough. What is bound or loosed on earth is the territory of those who have the right to act piously, not pretend when there is a teleprompter around.
Popular press: stop campaigning for a useless president. It embarrasses us all. It's really quite unnecessary.
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