Who in the World Wants to be a Saint?
St. Paul calls Christians saints in almost all his letters. Even the Corinthians, his most fractious, uncongenial, heretical congregational! I mean, if he can call them saints, he’d probably call us saints too. But who in the world wants to be a saint? Nearly all of us recoil at least a little when we read or hear Paul calling us that, don’t we? Saints are so, so, well, so uncool. Moralistic, judgmental, superior, unable to empathize with others who haven’t got it all together as they do, I mean think Ned Flanders, for God’s sake! Not all of think that way about saints, however. Perhaps we ought here their testimony before we completely dismiss the idea. Three of them I give you below. First, is Leonard Cohen: What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has someth...