John Paul II Needs Your Money for Sainthood
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Nov 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Some things never change. In 1517 a “short, dumpy, stump preacher” (James Kittleson, Martin Luther: The Reformer, 103) named Johann Tetzel was going around the Germany collecting money for Pope Leo X’s newest project, a renovation of St. Peter’s basilica. Such a project would not come cheap, especially when you had two [...]
