Top 10 Catholics of the 20th Century

[Macoraba]

Here's my list:

St Pius X

Sr Lucy and the Fatima message

Jozef Pilsudski and the Miracle of the Vistula

St Faustina and the Divine Mercy message

Francisco Franco

St Maximilian Kolbe

Pius XII

Padre PIo

Mother Teresa

Pope John Paul II the Great

[SaintThomasMorePrayForUs]

Francisco Franco? I know he fought the commies, but is there more to the story that I am missing?

[Numbers Guy]

Francisco Franco?

Still dead.

[RobbyS]

Sister Faustina. I had hardly paid attention to her--because of the bad art associated with her visions--until we had a service in Divine Medrcy Sunday. My eyes were opened. Like St. Therese of Liesieux she has a unique message for us.

[Macoraba]

IMO Francisco Franco is a great Crusader like San Fernando and Queen Isabela. He kept Spain Catholic. And there is no hint of scandal about his private life. He was a good, devout and faithful Catholic husband and father. A champion of the Church. He stood up to Hitler.

[conservlib]

I agree.

[sinkspur]

Take off Franco, and put John XXIII on the list. He's the second Pope of the 20th century to be beatified, and breathed new life into the Church with Vatican II.

I suspect you'll think differently.

[Macoraba]

"I suspect you'll think differently"


You suspect correctly!

[SaintThomasMorePrayForUs]

"Putting JP2 with the likes of Pope St. Pius X and Pope Pius XII is a disgrace."


I know...

They were not nearly as great as Pope John Paul the Great.

Of course, I am making a joke at the expense of my ultratraditionalist brethren, whom I respect but with whom I disagree.

[bnelson44]

"I suspect you'll think differently"


>You suspect correctly!

Which is why we shouldn't canonize people for at least 100 years after their death.

[sinkspur]

Putting JP2 with the likes of Pope St. Pius X and Pope Pius XII is a disgrace.

JPII will be regarded by history as a far greater Pope than both of these worthy pontiffs. JPII was a much more prolific writer, and an arguably better theologian as well.

[sinkspur]

Which is why we shouldn't canonize people for at least 100 years after their death.

Popular acclamation was the common method of canonization in the early Church. There is no doubt that both JPII and Mother Teresa are both saints; formal canonization is a formality.

[RobbyS]

Case in point is St. Therese, Amazing that her cause should advance so rapidly when she was entirely unknown to the public at the time of her death.

[kaehurowing]

Fulton J. Sheen

[sinkspur]

Pope St. Pius X saved millions of souls fighting to the death against modernism. jp2 couldn't lift a finger to defend the faith.

Pius X was a reactionary. Instead of dealing intellectually with the various movements and forces, he cavalierly dismissed them and drove them underground. "Modernism"--as you call it--were efforts to update the Church's message for a modern world. Aggiornamento emerged, full bloom, with Vatican II. The Church is better for it.

Obviously you've shown how ridiculous you are anti-church mole.

Somehow I'm guessing you're not just a sedevacantist between Popes.

[Wessex]

Take off Mother Teresa and JPII

and add:


Marcel Lefebvre (One day he will be made a saint - Michael Davies)

Princess Diana

[mware]

For literature I would add the following,

J.R. Tolkien

GK Chesterson

For actors I would add the following,

Anthony Hopkins,, my pick to play the role of JPII in any movie about him.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

I would have included Paul VI solely for Humanae Vitae which continued the Catholic Church's ban on contraception. It took a lot of courage to put it forward with everyone calling for a loosening, but he foresaw that one could not loosen.