Posted on 02/22/2011 7:47:25 AM PST by Alex Murphy
WARSAW, Poland (CNS) – Injured Polish race car driver Robert Kubica was to receive a reliquary containing a drop of blood from the late Pope John Paul II in an effort that church officials hope will hasten the 26-year-old Formula One star’s recovery from a serious crash.
Kubica also will receive a strip of fabric from one of the late pope’s liturgical robes, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz told Warsaw’s TVN24 news.
“John Paul II was a sportsman himself, he loved sport as a young man,” said the cardinal, who was secretary to the Polish pope.
Considered a rising star on the Formula One circuit, Kubica was competing in a road rally in Liguria, Italy, Feb. 6, when he lost control of his vehicle at high speed on a curve and crashed into a guardrail. He sustained multiple fractures and his right hand was partially severed, according to police.
....“John Paul II was a sportsman himself, he loved sport as a young man,” said the cardinal, who was secretary to the Polish pope.
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You seem very interested in Pope John Paul II today.
Superstition, not religion.
Correct.
They bottled his blood and saved it? What’s up with that?
Did they save anything else we should know about? Canned organs maybe?
>>Superstition, not religion.<<
Boy, I’ll say. This is really a perversion of Christianity.
That’s fine and all, but what makes the race driver anymore special or deserving than anyone else?
Here’s a link to a computer graphic of the horrific accident.
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/videos/752/computer-simulation-of-kubica-s-accident/
FMCDH(BITS)
Sorry, someone had to say it...;)
You’re bad, lol. God’ll get you for that!
Instead of shining a light into the past, and how saints were made, it shows what a farce it is for man to proclaim a human being as a “SAINT”. God alone will judge right a wrong, saint and sinner. The worship of a simple man, weakens the case for Catholicism as a righteous religion.
What kind of sick superstition puts faith in the blood of a dead pope? He was a man, like you or me, his blood has no power
The same ones that would keep around dead body parts and other relics and pray to them.
++++They bottled his blood and saved it? What’s up with that?+++
ohhh yea
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2666924/posts
Ohhh that was SOOOOOOOO Bad
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