How Will the Vatican Defend Its Saints?

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Short answer: American politics is not the Vatican’s top priority. Only 5% of Catholics are American. I doubt this will become a particularly global issue…and it will blow over in time.

That said, it is an issue that the Archdiocese of LA has to tackle and address…and it should be the local Church that deals with this issue, not the Vatican.
 
  1. The Saints are in heaven and need no defense.
  2. The Vatican no doubt considered and reviewed all the controversy re Fr. Serra before they decided to take the step of canonizing him, which happened just a few years ago. He is now canonized and that’s the end of it.
  3. The Vatican has zero interest in whether the US has a statue of a saint on secular public property or not, or what the US generally thinks of its saints or anything else.
  4. The LA Archdiocese has no doubt been dealing with this controversy for decades also and they can handle it just fine.
 
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Nitpick of the moment: I wish that the NCRegister, at least, could figure out the difference between the Vatican City State and the Holy See.
 
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Nitpick of the moment: I wish that the NCRegister, at least, could figure out the difference between the Vatican City State and the Holy See.
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Saying “the Vatican” is just a common metonym. It’s like calling the US federal government “Washington,” or the US Department of Defense “the Pentagon.”
 
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It’s like saying Muriel Bowser issued an executive order affecting health care for federal employees… right city, wrong administration.
 
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