Pope cures disease from beyond the grave

[Pawn Power]

Smiling and strong-voiced, the 46-year-old nun stepped out of her quiet life of prayer and good works and stood in front of a wall of cameras to proclaim that two months after the pope's death in 2005, he cured her of Parkinson's disease.


"I have been cured," she told journalists gathered for a news conference in Aix-en-Provence. "My healing was the work of God through the intercession of Pope John Paul II."

French nun bolsters John Paul II's case for sainthood (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/30/europe/vatican.php?page=1)

[razboz]

Originally posted by Pawn [email protected] 01, 2007 03:52 pm

Smiling and strong-voiced, the 46-year-old nun stepped out of her quiet life of prayer and good works and stood in front of a wall of cameras to proclaim that two months after the pope's death in 2005, he cured her of Parkinson's disease.


"I have been cured," she told journalists gathered for a news conference in Aix-en-Provence. "My healing was the work of God through the intercession of Pope John Paul II."

French nun bolsters John Paul II's case for sainthood (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/30/europe/vatican.php?page=1)
That guy is the SHIT, for sure.

He probably just chose not cure himself :rolleyes:

[Tommy-K]

Originally posted by Pawn [email protected] 01, 2007 03:52 pm

Smiling and strong-voiced, the 46-year-old nun stepped out of her quiet life of prayer and good works and stood in front of a wall of cameras to proclaim that two months after the pope's death in 2005, he cured her of Parkinson's disease.


"I have been cured," she told journalists gathered for a news conference in Aix-en-Provence. "My healing was the work of God through the intercession of Pope John Paul II."

French nun bolsters John Paul II's case for sainthood (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/30/europe/vatican.php?page=1)
That is the most fucking ridiculous story I have heard in a very long time. It worries me to think that people actually believe stuff like this. John Paul II and God team up in heaven to cure an old woman's parkinsons, please...

[Eleutherios]

Yeah, people believe it. The Catholics are way into saints using their godly superpowers to cure diseases (but never to regenerate lost limbs) after their death. If you want to become a saint, the Catholic Church needs "proof" that some kind of miracle has happened. Of course, the standards of evidence for what count as "proof" are about as strict as their standards of evidence for proving that wine will actually turns into Jesus' blood if you say some magic words. If you have an itchy asshole one day, pray to some dead Catholic, and it goes away the next day, that's a miracle.

Remember the whole Mother Teresa thing? Apparently Mother Teresa's ghost magically healed some lady's tumor in India. The team of doctors who were helping her don't receive any credit, of course, and neither do the countless cancer researchers who have made amazing discoveries in medical science over the past century. It was all the ghost of Mother Teresa, selecting out this one particular cancer patient in India to save, and ignoring the rest of them in the world, even the ones who are faithful Catholics.

[RebelDog]

But the late Polish pontiff needs one verifiable miracle to be beatified, which means that one has reached heaven and can be referred to as "Blessed."

So, if this miracle is confirmed, the late pope can climb the social ladder in heaven!

[Sadena Meti]

Originally posted by The [email protected] 03, 2007 07:10 am

But the late Polish pontiff needs one verifiable miracle to be beatified, which means that one has reached heaven and can be referred to as "Blessed."

So, if this miracle is confirmed, the late pope can climb the social ladder in heaven!
Does he get a better cloud or something?

Think I'm going to start my own personality cult, set up the miracles in advance. St. Rev. Stoic.

[Comrade J]

Well, he didn't do much to help AIDs sufferers in Africa when he was alive, but he's certainly redeemed himself by helping a nun from beyond the grave! :rolleyes: