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To: OLD REGGIE
why the unseemly haste in the last few years to fine new Saints?

I don't believe the word 'haste' applies so much as 'expansion'. JPII canonized more saints during his pontificate than any other pope. All of these individuals had to pass through the same rigorous examination. He expanded the number to include those from more diverse backgrounds. St. Gianna - for mothers with difficult pregnancies, for example and St. Nimatullah Al Hardini, a Maronite monk, embraced by those in an Eastern Catholic Tradition.

From what I understand, Benedict XVI plans to slow down the number of canonizations.

154 posted on 01/30/2006 8:47:28 PM PST by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: NYer
"I don't believe the word 'haste' applies so much as 'expansion'..."

I am almost certain you are aware my use of "unseemly haste" was slightly hyperbolic.

I do, however, believe there has been an almost assembly line naming of "Saints" in the past few years. To what purpose"

Further, I believe "miraculous healing" is too freely interpreted. If there is a record of thousands of instances of spontaneous healing (remission) of a particular condition how do you choose one as a "miracle"? Are they all "miraculous"?

I have been partially paralyzed for well over 20 years and have attended several "healing" services at various churches, Catholic and Protestant. I have not been healed but there are many cases on record of people being "healed" of the same condition. Were they all "miracles" regardless of where, when, or how the healing took place? I don't think so.

I may sound skeptical but I believe firmly that we should ascribe a "miracle" to something that has not yet happened as far as we know. Such a "miracle" would be an example of a missing limb growing back.

206 posted on 01/31/2006 10:02:30 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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