Posted on 03/23/2014 7:49:27 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
The Catholic belief of “incorruptibility” holds that if a body does not decay after death, the person is holy. It takes two miracles to become a saint; the Church once allowed a perfect corpse to count as one.
Incorruptibility is no longer a miracle, however, perhaps because so many tried to help God along. Oil and herbs were inserted into the muscle cavities of some older popes, for instance.
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, the Vatican used a wrapping technique similar to what was believed to have been applied to Jesus. It failed miserably. Only days after his death, his nose fell off, and a Swiss Guard fainted due to the stench while he was guarding the body.
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In 2000, Pope John Paul II had [Pope John XXIII] exhumed to be declared “blessed,” part of the progression to sainthood. The airtight coffin had left him virtually undisturbed, and the embalming team wanted to keep it that way.
After the pope’s internal organs were removed and analyzed, the body was placed in a stainless-steel tub for several weeks in a solution of formalin and alcohol, then neutralized for several weeks.
His body then undertook a series of baths in assorted solutions for months at a time, including various mixtures of ethanol, methanol, phenol, camphor, nitrobenzene, turpentine and benzoic acid.
Finally the body was bandaged in linen cloths saturated with a solution of mercury bichloride and ethanol. Then a second team ensconced him with wax on his face and hands. The entire process took about a year.
The Church decided not to rebury Pope John XXIII, instead putting him on display for pilgrims. More than 25,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica every day, and many faithful still believe the incorrupt state of his body is a miracle.
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Jonas was a poker player?
Yes caught it, very cleaver.
It goes to show what Catholics think of Christians who memorize Scripture.
In the meantime, seems they spend their days memorizing the Catechism with the way they know it far better than Scripture.
"And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! Never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, Thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden." Qur’an 5:116
"The Qur'anic interpretation of trinitarian orthodoxy as belief in the Father, the Son, and the Virgin Mary, may owe less to a misunderstanding of the New Testament itself than to a recognition of the role accorded by local Christians (see Choloridians) to Mary as mother in a special sense." - Edward Hulmes: Qur'an and the Bible, The; entry in the Oxford Companion to the Bible.
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jeremiah 44:16-17)
Well, lets just say they got their heads together on this one.
And try to AVOID the biblical: "and to dust you shall return"?
Golly, Wally!
Sick!
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His skin certainly has the correct tint to it!
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>> “I think that Peter guy is supposed to be a POPE...” <<
I bet that he’d cut their ear off with a broadsword if they told him that to his face...
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>> “I think that Peter guy is supposed to be a POPE...” <<
I bet that he’d cut their ear off with a broadsword if they told him that to his face...
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>> “ I was talking about catholicism, not the Lord’s work.” <<
LOL! - Zzzziiinnnnnnng!
(and AMEN)
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I guess all those chariot wheels that Ron Wyatt found in the Red Sea must have gotten washed down by the rain?
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Who wrote that comment? That person might need to check themselves in.
>> “Murdering 53 million children in cold blood for the sake of convenience, flushing their body parts down the sewer system and calling it a “constitutional right” seems way beyond “freaky” to Catholics.” <<
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Some catholics you mean?
Could you be forgetting all the infant skeletons found in the basements of convents?
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bttt
True, sometimes they may have a bone to pick with you.
-— Could you be forgetting all the infant skeletons found in the basements of convents? -—
And the secret tunnel to the rectory.
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