Comments on: Pitfalls On The Path To Sainthood

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:36:57 +0000

R : My many important contacts in the Vatican tell me that the kibosh has been put on Dobson’s canonisation. Apparently the Papist powers disapprove of his hats and boots.

Phil : The perils of faking one’s own death are too numerous to mention. Canoe Man comes to mind, as does, from a generation ago, the Paymaster General John Stonehouse.

G Riecke : Patron antisaints, of sheep or anything else, strike me as an interesting concept. And Lord knows there is enough bad wool produced to make it likely such sinister forces are at work.

By: G Riecke

G Riecke — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:14:36 +0000

There’s little of the miraculous in occasionally revealing oneself to shepherd boys. Indeed, you’d probably end up receiving whatever the antithesis of sainthood is. You’d be the patron antisaint of sheep; your name cursed to the heavens whenever bad wool was produced. Still, you’d be remembered..

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:45:14 +0000

Could one not, after a few years of living piously, fake one’s own death, dress up as a vagabond and occasionally give one’s true identity to shepherd boys. This way the would be saint would be ensured sainthood through apparent miracles and would be alive to enjoy it.

By: R

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:38:45 +0000

I have been wondering, in this connection, whether there are any plans in place for the canonisation of Dobson; and, if not, whether an online petition to the Vatican authorities containing, say, a million signatures might be an efficacious starting-point?

I do not have such a petition to hand but it would surely be possible to create one by adapting a telephone directory or discarded governmental CD of personal data-files.