Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

J. J. Lodder wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
 

On Wed, 28 May 2025 21:04:20 +0200, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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On Tue, 27 May 2025 18:24:27 +0100, Graham <zotzlists@gmail.com>
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On 27/05/2025 17:04, Paul S Person wrote:

On 26 May 2025 15:53:04 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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   I have my dictionary right here, and it says, "An event that
   appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to
   be supernatural in origin or an act of God".
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   Oops! Sorry, I was being an "intellectualist" again!

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Just because the intellectuals and atheists won the battle to make
that the definition does not change the reality.

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   It seems to match the Catholic definition, and they are after all the
largest Christian denomination.

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They also have a special interest in making them as hard to find as
possible, to keep down the hucksters. And keep the number of new
Saints to a minimum.
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But they also have a tendency to keep quiet about popular miracles
that they know are not (by the definition given above) lest they
"disturb the faith of the laity" -- which is to say, the unwashed
masses.

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As a matter of fact the 'three authentic miracles' to be performed
as a condition for Sainthood have been abolished,
from practical necessity and by popular demand.
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The necessary production of fresh saints just couldn't be kept up,

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Thanks for the update. I make no attempt to keep up with what they are
doing, so it takes something major, like an American Pope, to catch my
eye.

 The case of John-Paul II is often cited as an example of the unseemly
haste of recent procedures, under popular demand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatification_of_Pope_John_Paul_II>
 It really is safer to do nothing for the first hundred years,

While idly surfing TV in 1990 I came across a Catholic channel, in which several serious gentlemen were interviewing a priest who had recently read all  the writings of Cardinal Newman.  I stayed with the channel because Somerset Maugham wrote that Newman's style had a serious influence on his own writings.
It turned out that, a hundred years after his death, they were considering whether or not to award Newman the title "Doctor of the Church, which it appears they have not yet done.  The possibility of sainthood was also mentioned, which was granted in 2019.  There are vastly fewer Doctor's than saints, which is as it should be.
I congratulated his great-great-great nephew, a friend of the family.
William Hyde