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August 20, 2014
New in the Kiosk: Holy Terrors: Lives of the Certifiable Saints (2014) by Stephen Van Eck
"There are saints who are inoffensive, such as the protohippie Francis of Assisi. But the saints officially canonized by the Church include a shocking number of persons who, in all honesty, must be considered major nut cases. It's an indication of how deranged the religious impulse can be that their lunacy is not merely unrecognized, but reinterpreted as an expression of supreme sanctification."