Grim/m Doubt

Is there a higher pastoral authority
in human existence, a fount of
wisdom and theological-social
aspirations toward the ultimate
spirituality on the path to sainthood
than the pope? There was a children's
book with a moral message of a poor
fisherman whose catch of a giant
elderly fish offered the man a wish
if he but returned the fish, an obvious
angel in disguise to its watery home.
The fisherman thought long and hard
and finally ventured his wish; to be
the pope. Sternly rebuked by the
fish who warned that he could be
an emperor, a king, a monarch of
great estates and wealth, but the pope
never, ever in his wildest dreams,
that position sacred inheritance to
scant few whose destiny it was. Now
the pope has issued a decree that a
new pathway to sainthood is extended
to the faithful of his flock. As example
an expectant mother waving off
life-saving treatment for her fatal
disease, in exchange for delivering
her child intact; that child known
to be deformed never to attain full
maturity as a functioning adult, her 
sacrifice ushering her to sainthood.