Review: Thank Heavens!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2011
Mr. Crow can get very grouchy at this time of year; all that enforced good cheer and carol singing and eggnog can really give him emotional indigestion. So thank heavens he came across Bill Donahue's exhilarating The Secret World of the Saints! Here's a writer with genuine religious feeling, sensitive to the nuances of the Catholic church and its ongoing program to discover saints in the most useful of places, such as an Indian reservation in the United States.What he has written is a remarkable little history of how the church finds its saints and how it verifies their miracles. The Catholic church from afar can look monolithic and forbidding, even insane, but at ground level, the human quirks of its practitioners are evident and redeeming.You may be a skeptic, you may be a believer, you may even be a grumpy old coot like Mr. Crow. But you're likely to love The Secret World of the Saints.