“I don’t believe we really choose who is going to be canonized, God does.”

—  Kurt Burnette

Source: East meets West in America’s new Blessed http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2014/10/04/east_meets_west_in_america’s_new_blessed_/en-1107885 (4 October 2014)

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