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Posted on 07/10/02

Opus Dei followers celebrate new saint

ROME -- Clarissa Coker dreams of becoming a saint and she thinks Opus Dei will help her attain her goal."We are all striving to be saints," said Ms. Coker, a 36-year-old pharmacist, from Lagos, Nigeria. She was up on her tiptoes to get a peek at Pope John Paul on a giant television screen as he declared the founder of the controversial Roman Catholic movement a saint in a ceremony at St. Peter's Square yesterday.

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