His tireless campaign for the canonization of Edward the Confessor finally succeeded.

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He clearly has no desire to see the crowning triumph of his campaign to woo the West perhaps as close as an atheist practitioner of Leninist doctrine can come to canonization become a public relations rout for its coming in the midst of a new campaign of Kremlin repression bearing his imprint.

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He clearly has no desire to see the crowning triumph of his campaign to woo the West -- perhaps as close as an atheist practitioner of Leninist doctrine can come to canonization -- become a public relations rout for its coming in the midst of a new campaign of Kremlin repression bearing his imprint.

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Tekakwitha's canonization follows what has been judged a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church in the 2006 case of an American boy with a flesh-eating bug.

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