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Article: Jesuits and Dominicans square off anew over Savonarola.(dispute over whether to canonize Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola )
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 22, 1999
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More than 500 years after being burned at the stake as a heretic, Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola -- preacher of fiery apocalyptic sermons, de facto ruler of Florence and today a candidate for sainthood -- can still stir deep passions.
A public tiff in Italy between members of the Dominicans and the Jesuits over the campaign to canonize Savonarola is the latest proof of his enduring power to divide.
Despite having called the church of his day a "harlot" and a "monster of abomination" -- and despite charges of having administered a fundamentalist theocracy in Florence, Italy, analogous to Afghanistan under the Taliban -- Savonarola seems a serious ...