“It never ends well for saints, no matter how good they are. Castration, defenestration, hot pincers, prison – the saint is a scapegoat, a martyr, a patsy. Barnabas was stoned to death,8 but his story lived beyond him. Every Catholic knew his name. It was the paradox of the saints, one thing Charlie held on to from his childhood: remembered well, remembered forever, but only after being hated to death.”
