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Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy, do I have a story for you tonight that proves the Catholic Church finally figured out what we’ve known for centuries: women are just as capable of being holy as men are. Groundbreaking stuff, folks. Really pushing the envelope in 2001. So Pope John Paul II canonizes Saint Rafqa, Lebanon’s first female saint. And look, I’m genuinely thrilled for her—she absolutely deserves it. But can we talk about the timeline here? We’re in 2001. Lebanon has had women for, oh, I don’t know, all of human history, and it takes until the year 2001 to officially declare one of them holy enough to be a saint? That’s like saying, “Congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics—here’s your trophy from 1987.” Better late than never, I guess, but the Church’s speed on gender equality makes continental drift look like a Formula One race. ...