Vatican supports Parkinson's disease "miracle," but not a cure
To turn the saint in the Catholic Church you've got to perceptible at slightest dual miracles. (Only after the person's genocide -- sainthood right away is purely the post-mortem probability in Catholicism, though things were different in the Middle Ages.)
John Paul II is halfway there, as this dead-and-gone Pope has been credited with the heal of Sister Marie Simon-Pierre's Parkinson's disease, which gets him to the beatification level. Failing to examine many cases of passionate abuse apparently isn't the black symbol for the would-be beatified.
The tellurian lay Catholic group We Are Church responded this week end with dismay. In the press release, it calls John Paul the "spiritual authoritarian."
Their box is which he failed to confront the abuse scandal, which he squashed the Liberation Theology movement, which he shut off contention upon gender equality as well as which he did not recognize, as Pope Benedict XVI did recently, which use of condoms can be the moral preference for preventing the delivery of of HIV/AIDS.
Michael Kinsley, who has Parkinson's himself, wrote an glorious research of this silly attempt to make the spectacle out of the controversial box of medical remission. In "Don't let 'miracles' trump science," he said:
Congratulations to Simon-Pierre. Its supernatural what the spectacle can do. But I could use the supernatural heal for Parkinsons, too, as could millions of others around the universe who have the disease or will rise it.
And the main force preventing such the spectacle is the Roman Catholic Church. The most likely source of supernatural cures for all sorts of diseases, with Parkinsons inaugural between them, is branch dungeon research. The Church opposes branch dungeon research upon the grounds which it uses, as well as in the process, destroys tellurian embryos.
These have been over-abundance embryos from fertilization clinics which will be destroyed, or permanently ! frozen, anyway. They have been not fetuses; they have been clumps of the few dozen cells. But of course, nothing of this counts if we believe they have been tellurian beings.
The famous exam of which belief goes something similar to this: Suppose there was the glow destroying your house as well as we had the preference of rescuing possibly the real one-year-old baby or dual exam tubes, each containing an embryo. Would we really go for the exam tubes as well as let the baby die?
It seems some-more than the small astray not characteristic of John Paul II at all which he would heal Simon-Pierre though leave the rest of us unresolved out to dry. I goal that, in his next miracle, John Paul II will do something to rectify this situation. After all, it competence be his last one.
