Sainthood for Evita Peron too ?

Being a Catholic by fate if not by piety, I keep up with

    Church affairs by reading " The Providence Visitor ". I do recommend

    reading this weekly for a balanced view on the sex scandals.

             Yesterday I was amused to read that the famous Catholic

    TV personality and Church scholar-or propagandist- Archbishop Fulton

    J. Sheen is being considered for sainthood. Catholic baby boomers-

    who experienced the golden age of The Church in America - will never

    forget that guy with his piercing, pious look - and that blackboard

    with short notes on it suggesting that for this mighty intellect

    Hell fire was as real as global warming is for the Greens today.

               I don't know what my opinion might be worth in the higher

    circles of the Church. But I think that Argentina's legendary " Evita "

    - Eva Peron - who did more for her poor people than Mother Teresa -

    is a more credible candidate for sainthood than  Fulton J. Sheen -

    whose fierce anti-communism at times made him seem more loyal to

    capitalism than Catholicism.

              " Evita " had the heart of the saint  -even if certain

    cynics would brand her as the patron saint of prostitutes.

              Next time I visit LaSallette, I will light a candle for

    my  kind and lovely " Evita ". Saint or no saint, the death of a

    beautiful woman is always the stuff of great poetry.

         "... Santa, Santa Evita ! "