Mother Tersea - Confused

[VHG]

The catholic church has said Mother Teresa has had a second miracle attributed to her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35129463

The Vatican said "The miracle involved the healing of a Brazilian man with several brain tumours in 2008"

Mother Teresa died in 1997, nine years before that.

How can this be attributed to Mother Teresa?

Is this modern day and age I am staggered that people still believe in this sort of thing.

Surely it is no better than "witchcraft".

And it staggers me that MORE people follow the catholic church rather than less, even with the churches controversial history and modern day abuse of children by priests.

I suppose it shows how many gullible people there are in the world.

[pixie374]

Oh. I thought God listened to everyone? Favouritism...

[Mamyalynne]

It's not God doing the venerating here though is it?

[naomi24]

Caller ... you are in a queue....

Sound familiar? :o)

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne, of course not. When did God ever do the venerating?

[Mamyalynne]

Good one......

[gness]

God only ever listened to me, Pixie, when I was naughty....then he made it thunder and lightening.....and I'd confess to anything my mother wanted to make it stop......☺

[ummmm]

Zacs...sorry I didn't get back sooner. Not recently, when I was in school. It was a nun that taught us.

[Canary42]

//// I am not a Roman Catholic, but I do class myself a
Christian, and no matter what some believe in, as long as it doesn't cause any harm, it is much better that belonging to a religion that commits act of terrorism, puts to death homosexuals and carries out beheadings.////

I think you'll find all these acts (and worse) were carried out by the Roman Catholic IRA, all within living memory so not requiring consultation of History Books.

[Jackdaw33]

If there is no medical explanation for a cure it is normally attributed to the person whose intercession was asked.

[naomi24]

Canary42, the IRA didn't operate in the name of religion. That's a false argument.

[naomi24]

Jackdaw33, yes. Mother Teresa was assumed by the person who offered the prayer to her to have a 'hot line' to God.

[ummmm]

Canary...the IRA wasn't fighting for Roman Catholics.

[Peter Pedant]

hmm I dont think the OP is a catholic

the event has to be against nature and have no explanation
and complete regression of cancer counts as that ( you usually 99.9% die )

Good film with Tom Conti on this point - are we too advanced for miracles and do they belong elsewhere ?

[Peter Pedant]

// Canary...the IRA wasn't fighting for Roman Catholics.//

quite right Ummm - the ignorance of people who wont read history books is legendary

Robert Nairac GC was one who sacrificed his life for Queen and Country

[Peter Pedant]

Intercessionary prayer

pray to your fave saint who may or may not have a direct line to the Big One
not to everyone's taste and not part of the reformed religions

o and bfofre you ask - it has come up before - Muslims most certaily do NOT do intercessionary prayer big time

[Psybbo]

St Anthony usually works for me

[jennyjoan]

IRA never fought for me either or anybody belonging to me.

UDA did murder my nephew - but this would open a whole can of worms and would warrant another post.

[tamborine]

Ive been to Rc convents in far & middle east where education was was available to locals bynuns & priests; albeit learn catholicism. No other religion offered to educate similarly, even governments in those distant lands preferred an ignorant populace.

if a person has faith, miracles do happen and o dont dpubt a mMt Theresa cured this illness.
....Please Mt teresa make this readable ;)
if this is garbled response tis coz AB has infected my tablet

[Cloverjo]

I pray to St Antony, too, and the parking fairies. They often help, except when they don't.

[tamborine]

^^^ see, Mt Theresa beat ABs virus ;)