For the past seven years, columnist, media spokesperson and journalist Ruth Houston has put out a list of the top 10 celebrity infidelities. In the past few years, her task of naming the top ten has become increasingly more difficult. Politicians, sports icons, corporate executives and other public figures are now routinely exposed in the media for their extra-marital affairs.
Some videotaped it. Others photographed it. Bloggers commented on it. Portuguese newspapers reported it. On May 14, 2011, Diario de Noticias and Correio de Manha both carried stories about what happened at Fatima, Portugal on the previous day.
Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader responsible for the attacks against our nation on September 11, 2001, is dead. The planes that crashed into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field left nearly 3,000 people dead. Now, ten years later, the mastermind of that murderous plot is himself dead.
On April 8, 2005, the millions of people who attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II cried out “Santo Subito.” Six years later on May 1, 2011, the Pope who canonized more saints than any other Pope in modern history, was officially listed in their ranks as Blessed by Pope Benedict XVI.