Saint Pauli

By Frank Stasio

Published July 20, 2012 at 10:44 AM EDT

In the Episcopalian Church, it is customary for someone to be deceased for 50 years in order to become a saint. However when it came to Pauli Murray, the church鈥檚 General Convention chose to set aside the rule and include her in the book 鈥溾€� (Church Publishing/ 2010), giving her status as a saint. Barbara Lau, director of , and Meg McCann, a parishioner at St. Titus Episcopal Church, join host Frank Stasio to discuss Murray鈥檚 achievements and legacy.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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