What Will The Goodly Ungodly Make Of This?

[sandyRoe]

http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/pope-john-paul-ii-cures-nun-of-parkinsons-disease/2g4mfsm8

[Old_Geezer]

The mind is a powerful thing, the problem is getting it to do what you consciously want it to. Faith can help in that. If the nun had faith she would lose her symptoms and even start to repair, who is to say her subconscious mind can not achieve that ?

[RATTER15]

I would say that she never had Parkinson's in the first place, certainly no miraculous cure by any pope!

[jomifl]

My god that's amazing, I can hardly believe it's true......Oh right, it isn't, that I can believe.

[RATTER15]

Why did this so called God give it to her in the first place, then to cure of it.

Its all nonsense.

[jomifl]

Ratter, it is unkind to ask difficult questions when the only being that can answer them doesn't exist.

[ChillDoubt]

A cure for Parkinson's? Hurrah!
Do those affected have to become Catholic before getting in line for the medicine?

[emmie]

wouldn't have thought that was remotely possible, not without lots of medicines that can control it, and not even then

[Graham-W]

You need to keep up to date. The Beatification was put on hold 4 years ago when new evidence came to light.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/05/nun-cured-pope-parkinsons-ill

[Old_Geezer]

Be fair, he's no longer around to perform the miracle again.

[emmie]

wouldn't once be enough ^

[Graham-W]

Oh. No old geezer. He performed this "miracle" from beyond the grave. The nun had been praying to J-P II and he "cured her".

[Old_Geezer]

Since one can not tell if the person prayed to was the cause of the remission, then I don't see how that can be used as evidence for canonisation. Surely the individual has to be seen to be performing the miraculous works to get credit ?

[Graham-W]

'fraid that's not how it works for the RCs. You pray to M. Theresa* for a cure and you get better. She gets the credit.* Other Saints are available .

[wildwood]

How dare Paulus cure the nun after his boz had afflicted her with the ailment. Surely disenfranchisement of the Lord's work should not be rewarded by a sainthood!?

[mibn2cweus]

Once again an apparent miracle that turns out to be nothing more than simply another misdiagnosed case of . . . Catholicism.

[mikey4444]

What I find amazing is that the Catholic Church can perform miracle cures on nuns but seems incapable of stopping all those little boys from being abused by Priests. You have to question their priorities a bit surely ?

[ludwig]

My cousin's dying of cancer, as are lots of other people. I'm not particularly impressed by it.

[naomi24]

I've never been impressed by a loving god's decision to create horrible diseases either.

[emmie]

of determine that it's ok to kill your neighbour because your particular faith tells you so

[modeller]

I will begin to believe in miracles when an amputee regrows a severed limb.
Could it be that is something that can't be fudged.