Thomas Smith:  

's church, ours is not a financial crisis, it is a spiritual one.” Brian Mimbs, pastor, Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Tallahassee, Fla. July, 2009 <>< To be made a saint in-a the catholic church, you have to have-a four miracles. That's-a the rules, you know. It's-a always been that-a. Four miracles, and-a to prove it. Well, this-a Mother Seton-now they could only prove-a three miracles. But the Pope-he just waved the fourth one. He just waved it! And do you know why? It's-a because she was American. It's all-a politics. We got-a some Italian-a people, they got-a forty, fifty, sixty miracles to their name. They can't-a get in just cause they say there's already too many Italian saints, and this woman comes along with-a three lousy miracles. I understand that-a two of them was-a card tricks. Father Guido Sarducci - gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano." <>< "We have reduced the Gospel of the Kingdom to a shrink-wrapped presentation that if we can get people to say and pray the right things back to us, we will pronounce them fit for heaven and free to live their life on earth however they desire." ~ David Platt".