One of the reasons why the Catholic Church remains such a powerful force is that it is beyond ridicule.
The fast-track sanctification of John Paul II is a case in point.
The two ‘miracles’ attributed to him are so absurd and beg so many questions it’s hard to know where to start.
A miracle is defined as “an effect of nature not attributable to any of the operations of nature nor to the act of man, but indicative of a superhuman power”.
Karol Wojtyla couldn’t have acted in human form to cure the two women – one of Parkinson’s disease and the other of cerebral aneurism – because he happened to be dead at the time.
Medics can’t explain why the French nun and woman from Costa Rica recovered. As they apparently had recently prayed to the ghost of the late Pope, this is deemed the only possible explanation for returning to full health. Yeah, right!
By this zany reasoning, anyone who inexplicably gets well without medical assistance is potentially the beneficiary of some form of supernatural intervention.
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