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To: missyme
What evidence are you looking for? The story and what happened is evidence...

A story is not evidence; it's merely a story.

14 posted on 02/14/2005 2:55:33 PM PST by connectthedots
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To: connectthedots; netmilsmom

uhhh, a miracle (called "the miracle of the sun") is attributed to it. It was seen by a hell whole lot of people. Go peddle your junk elsewhere.


16 posted on 02/14/2005 3:01:06 PM PST by CouncilofTrent (Quo Primum...)
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To: connectthedots

Actually the Church requires a substantial amount of evidence before it will bother declaring an event like this as "worthy of belief" (catholics are not required to believe in it though - as it is in the realm of private revelation and is not a part of the deposit of faith)

There are many similar events throughout history that the Church never ruled on because of lack of evidence.

There was a heckuva lot of supportive evidence to rule positively for Fatima.
While the children were the only ones to see Mary - the crowds witnessed other phenomena (a globe of light, the tree branch bending, flashes of light, rose petals which fell from a beam of light, scent of roses, sound of thunder...)
Then of course there was the miracle of the sun. Estimated crowd of 70,000 people present. That's alot of witnesses.

Furthermore - the church waited to see if the prophecies would pan out before they issued approval.
They did.


24 posted on 02/14/2005 7:45:51 PM PST by Scotswife
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