[Pyro7480]

From my understanding, there's no deadline for the beatified to be canonized. All this sounds like is that these Catholics want John Paul to canonize her.

[Pyro7480]

Catholic Ping!

[siunevada]

supporters are racing against the clock

I think you are right on no dealine. The reporter is making the story a little more "dramatic" than it really is.

[Arguss]

I know how her followers feel. I felt the same way about the Beatification of Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich.

I was afraid that John Paul, who is favorably disposed toward her would die before he got around to it. Who knows what the next Pope will do? He might think there have been too many beatified and canonized this go round.

I used to go to the Auriesville shrine every summer, and have kissed Bl. Kateri's relic.

[LadyDoc]

Paret said the biggest disappointment came about six years ago when a woman who had lived on a New Mexico reservation came out of a coma after 16 years. The bishop of the Santa Fe diocese had prayed to Kateri. But the woman, who was in a nursing home at the time, was given medication for the flu, which doctors said brought her out of her coma. A doctor friend of Paret reviewed the case and agreed.

They gave her Symmetrel, a drug that fights parkinson's disease but is actually used to prevent flu. I once treated our nursing home with it during a flu epidemic when the vaccine didn't work. No one came out of a coma, but theoretically they could.

Every Catholic Indian in New Mexico knows this story. They held a prayer service for this lady, who had been in a coma for ten years. Then she woke up. Coincidence?

We have a Kateri shrine at one of our local Catholic churches. Everyone knows she was a saint, it's just hard to "prove" it under the present day rules.

[LadyDoc]

Mrs. White Bull came out of a "persistant vegetative state" after her family and friends held a novena to Kateri.

Alas, since she had been given Amantidine or a similar anti viral medicine a few weeks earlier to prevent Influenza, and Amantidine type medicines are used to treat Parkinson's disease, it won't be classed as a miracle...