Talk:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Bl. Thomas More

Is this where one can editorialize?

Maybe this is folk attribution rather than official, but where I'm from St. Thomas More is not only the patron saint of lawyers, but also the patron saint of all who face injustice--becoming, in a sense, the lawyer of last resort for those who cannot afford or otherwise obtain justice any other way.

If your cause is just, and you sue for his help, I and others like me believe that you will receive that help in a surprisingly lawyerly fashion. Missing documents will surface, even if someone wanted them to stay missing. Friends and allies will find new inspiration and recall obscure precedents in your favor. Enemies will often repent of their emnity as though the saint had argued with their souls all night long. I have seen this not only work for Catholics but also people of other faiths--his one requirement seems to be that whatever is most fair and equitable should happen.

I have also observed that if your cause is not just, you will be the one who will feel your soul argued with, endlessly, until you concede the point and repent. (I have experienced this, myself.) So you must exercise honesty and integrity before asking for the intercession of St. Thomas More. And if legitimate arguments exist for both sides, invoking the saint seems to send down a grace of arbitration, helping each to see the value of the other one's position, and to work out a well-balanced compromise.

I have also heard of him recommended for, or invoked by or on behalf of women discriminated against or mistreated, especially women denied education, women denied honest employment, or women abandoned by a husband or unwillingly divorced. —unsigned comment by 75.164.43.183 (talk) 22:41, 10 January 2008.


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