Saintly Misdeeds

The deaths of Mother Teresa and Princess Diana; Ted Turner's billion dollar baksheesh at the United Nations; vociferous South East Asian lack of appreciation for George Soros's way of raising money for his good works: all this serves to focus attention on contemporary requirements for sanctity. And it takes a tad more than a widow's mite to make the grade nowadays. Especially if you are rich, since then you have to unburden yourself of sufficient wealth to be able to squeeze past the camel