Benedict XVI (or XV depending on what view is taken of an earlier ant-pope) is proposing to canonise John Paul II in double-quick time; he's already been declared blessed which is over half way.
On considering the purposes of canonisation the similarities with vampirism are striking or, perhaps, biting.
The maintenance of a personality after death; not just the traits embodied in the life of the dead but their continued growth and projection and change in reaction to continued events, as if there were a living entity independent of corporeal death.
The assertion of physical intervention into life now by way of miraculous activity.
The organisation of life activities and the generation of wealth.
Agreed there isn't the excitement of neck-nipping in the night, but lots of ecstatic activity by ladies chanting litanies -
Tower of Ivory,
House of Gold.....
The Heavenmouth is in Rome; minor outlets are throughout Christendom.
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Is "ant-pope" a Freudian slip or a deliberate slur?
And is the cross a slayer's defensive weapon or a canon/vampire's offensive one?
Surely this proliferation and mushrooming of saints has debased the currency of sainthood?
I don 't think so P. the Litany of Saints goes on for pages and pages. Accidently (or by deformation) I quoted the Litany of Loreto, much shorter.
I meant anti-pope; typo.
The current pope has declared that hell exists, waiting for all who deny his god.
What a can of worms to re-open. Perhaps he's responding to a perceived view on the part of those who rule us that we are all suitably dumbed-down by the hopeless educations that have been offered to the masses in the West for the last 30 years.
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