“I am not Catholic,” wrote Jessa Crispin on Saturday at the New York Times, “and yet I find myself drawn to the women saints. There is something about them that I admire. Maybe it is simply the lengths to which they went to avoid marrying.” Same.
During an elaborate open-air ceremony at the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square this morning that involved a lot of fancy costumes, bejeweled bibles, Latin liturgies, and probably some bored, sleep-weary children, clandestine Sith lord Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha (along with six others), making her the…
This month Pope Benedict will canonize Mary MacKillop, making her Australia's first native-born saint. She's been dubbed the "Patron Saint of Whistleblowers" due to her 1871 excommunication for denouncing priests that abuse children, but the Vatican is downplaying that misstep.
Marion Cotillard is the most beautiful person in the world right now. And if her new interview with Nicole Kidman in Interview Magazine is to be believed, she's also the best person. Let's just give up.
