JPII is really into this beatification stuff. Of course, if they beatify Pius IX, I imagine that sanctifies the whole infallibility business too.
Somewhat oddly, in the area of central Wisconsin I grew up in there were 4 Catholic High Schools. Newman, which I attended, named after Lord Acton's co-conspirator in the anti-infallibility rump faction; Pacelli, named after Pius XII, who has his own beatification controversy; Assumption, named after one of the 2 official invocations of papal infallibility; and Columbus. I don't know how Columbus fits in, I don't think he was ever considered particularly saintly, even before things got revisionist on him. Marshfield, WI isn't the first place I'd go looking for Italians, either.
Cheers, Dan. |
