Posted on 05/16/2011 2:28:41 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
BERLIN — Germans in Pope Benedict XVI’s home state of Bavaria celebrated Sunday the beatification ceremony of a priest who was honored for practicing his Roman Catholic faith in defiance of the Nazis.
The pope, who grew up in Bavaria, sent Cardinal Angelo Amato from the Vatican to celebrate the beatification Mass for Georg Haefner in Wuerzburg Cathedral, the DAPD news agency reported.
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Just as it took a genius like Shakespeare to make a masterpiece from a story as silly as King Lear, it takes a saint to know the difference between goodness and mindless pseudobenevolence.
Just as it took a genius like Shakespeare to make a masterpiece from a story as silly as King Lear, it takes a saint to know the difference between goodness and mindless pseudobenevolence.
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