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Miracle Miracle
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A convenient miracle has been discovered which will allow pope paul to become a saint. Silly beyond words.
http:// www.dai lymail. co.uk/n ews/art icle-23 44580/V atican- pave-wa y-decla ring-Po pe-John -Paul-I I-saint -attrib uting-m ystery- miracle -him.ht ml
Apologies for the link to the daily mail, the same story is in most newspapers so it must be true.
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Apologies for the link to the daily mail, the same story is in most newspapers so it must be true.
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A miracle is a supernatural event. The Catholic church is obsessed with them. The majority of accepted "miracles" are medical ones where a person, often from Central or South America, is "cured". The original disease in question is often misdiagnosed.
By their very nature miracles should be more "miraculous". Why don't the devout pray for the return of a deceased family member for instance, or is that too miraculous?
By their very nature miracles should be more "miraculous". Why don't the devout pray for the return of a deceased family member for instance, or is that too miraculous?
Pope John Paul II wasn’t actually around when the first ‘miracle’ took place. The nun who claims to have been cured of Parkinson’s Disease, says he healed her by intercession. In other words he was already dead, but her order prayed to him for her recovery so he had a word with God on her behalf, and voila! As ‘they’ say, it’s not what you know - it’s who you know! ;o)
http:// www.ind ependen t.co.uk /news/w orld/eu rope/po pe-john -paul-i i-cured -nun-fr om-beyo nd-the- grave-2 187964. html
//The Vatican issued stricter rules in 2008 after complaints that the Congregation was becoming a "saint factory".//
About right.
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//The Vatican issued stricter rules in 2008 after complaints that the Congregation was becoming a "saint factory".//
About right.
What seems to me to be really silly is the assumption(non-biblical) that it was a prayer re. pope paul that did the trick. It could equally have been a prayer by anybody else via any other saint. Of course the vatican could have got the nod from upstairs, something like ' it was the prayer from the family via paul that convinced me to do the miracle otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.'
// We're presented with evidence, evidence strong enough to satisfy the elders of the church apparently ..//
They're the elders of the church sandy. Traditionally these are not people who apply much quality control when deciding what constitutes evidence. That's why the mockers continue to scoff and the scoffers continue to mock.
They're the elders of the church sandy. Traditionally these are not people who apply much quality control when deciding what constitutes evidence. That's why the mockers continue to scoff and the scoffers continue to mock.