What is Catholic Church's take on “Whom God Loves Die Young”?
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I think I remember the Book of Ecclesiastes says God allows some of the good to die young because he does not want them to be corrupted by a long life full of temptations. He wants them for himself as innocents that they are.
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What is Catholic Church's take on the phrase “Whom God Loves Die Young”?
This question reminds me of the song by from Billy Joel's from 1977, Only the Good Die Young
As D. J. Clayworth comment puts it nicely into a nutshell:
Pretty much every thinker I know considers this phrase to be just a cliché, whose only value is a superficial comforting of people who have lost a young loved one. I would certainly dispute that it "has been accepted as a fact of life, by people across different religions".
Taken the fact that countless canonized saints have lived to a ripe old age, the phrase is nothing more than a popular expression used when describing someone that has lived a good (holy) life and unfortunately lived a very short life.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) depending how one looks at it, there are very few children that are actually canonized saints.
Of course there are the Holy Innocents.
Both Maria Goretti and the two canonized children of Fatima, Francisco and Jacinta Marto.
Maria Goretti (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and they had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. Maria took over household duties while her mother, brothers, and sister worked in the fields.
She was only 11 years when she was martyred protecting her virginity.
The only known photograph of Maria Goretti, dated to early 1902
The two Marto children were solemnly canonized by Pope Francis at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, in Portugal on 13 May 2017, the first centennial of the first Apparition of Our Lady of Fátima. They are among the youngest Catholic saints, with Jacinta being the youngest saint who did not die a martyr.
Saints Francisco and Jacinta, circa 1917
Amongst other cases in the lineup for canonization are Antonietta Meo and Blessed Carlo Acutis
As I said before there are countless saints who lived to be very old, but very few children has received the honour of canonization.
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