Sentences with phrase «on sainthood»

Morton, adorned with the same buzz cut she wore in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report shares top billing in her smaller, but magnificently graceful role, one bordering on sainthood.

These novels by McDermott and Hijuelos are meditations on sainthood in the same vein as Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, but instead of a protagonist as priest hunted by totalitarian thugs, they show us New Yorkers as unlikely saints: an advertising executive and a worker for Con Edison.

Not exact matches

According to Duffy, the new model of sainthood fosters Pelagianism, «a wearisome emphasis on good deeds and moral effort, the saint as prig and puritan.»

In recent years, the Chesterton revival has taken on new dimensions, with calls to explore his possible sainthood.

Humanity on their part can emulate the model sainthood of Jesus through receiving his ever - flowing effusion of al - jamal in al - qalb or the faculty of the «transcendental spirit».

People who live a good Catholic life and lay down their life to save others will now be eligible for beatification - the first step on the path toward sainthood.

Benedict also put his predecessor, Pius XII, on the path to sainthood, further antagonizing many Jews, who believe the World War II - era pope did little to save Jews from Hitler.

Looking back as the Vatican prepares to declare John Paul II «Blessed» on Sunday - the last step before sainthood - Aponte is certain he and his fellow cardinals made the right choice.

The Reformation understood (1) that life must be completed by a power that is not our own, (2) that human pride insinuates itself on every level of sainthood, and (3) that freedom can bring either good or evil or both.

«Right now, Pope John Paul II has been put on the path to sainthood by Pope Benedict XVI.

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: a Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler (228 pp., ISBN 0 -434-00857-5) is published by Heinemann.

The Catholic belief of saints and sainthood borders on lunacy.

These lives are an earnest of a life that may be lived one day by all the members of the church on earth, for sainthood is not some half - legendary grace of the early church which died out within a few centuries of the church's foundation.

When the Vatican recently announced its new candidates for sainthood, there was a remarkable name on its list: Pope Paul VI.

Resources: ««Humanae Vitae» Author Pope Paul VI Moves Toward Sainthood,» Catholic News Agency, December 20, 2012 Evangelii Nuntiandi, Apostolic Exhortation of Paul VI (1975) Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (on priestly celibacy), Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1967) Populorom Progressio, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI, 1967 Humanae Vitae, Encyclical Letter of Paul VI (1968) Declaration on Procured Abortion, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1974 Persona Humana, Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1975 Inter Insigniores, Declaration on the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved by Paul VI, 1976 Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First Things via RSS, and follow First Things on Twitter.

TOO bad sainthood is not generally conferred on bakers, for there is one who is a possible candidate for canonization.

And as for that defense: if reputations increase while a player is missing, then Vincent Kompany is currently on course for sainthood.

Peter McKay discusses Angela Eagle landing her claws into Jeremy Corbyn, Mother Teresa's sainthood, Hitler's testicle, George Osborne's bet on the Bulgarians and much more in his column.

The legal representatives were acting on behalf of the relatives and supporters of the late Jérôme Lejeune, a geneticist, paediatrician, anti-abortion campaigner, friend of Pope John Paul II and current candidate for sainthood.

Martin Scorsese's intrusive insistence on his abstract, metaphysical theme — the possibility of modern sainthood — marks this 1973 film, his first to attract critical notice, as still somewhat immature, yet the acting and editing have such an original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping.

In many ways The Possibilities of Sainthood is an ode to growing up Roman Catholic in an Italian household, and how praying for the saints to intercede on one matter or another is as regularly a part of life as eating pasta.

Keeping that in perspective, the show's second section, Saints and Martyrs, will focus on the incredible importance sainthood and martyrdom had both in Iran's history and its contemporary art.

Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist's version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist - engineer who leads the United Nations» climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the panel, sharing the honor with former Vice President Al Gore.