[babygene]

I'm catholic and do believe in miracles. However I have had 38 years of experience with Juvenal Parkinson's, and this one is going to be hard to "prove". There are a lot of things that can cause Parkinson's syndrome in a younger person, and usually it's not your classic Parkinson's disease. It can be a side effect to numerous medications and can go away when you stop taking the medication.

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

I second the caution. I do not really understand why the officials let this information out. In the case of causes sponsored by the person's religious order or group of devoted friends, I can understand them releasing the information to encourage others to invoke the putative saint's intercession. But in this case, where the cause is being handled by a high-level official and the putative saint is probably being invoked by millions around the world, the cause needs no publicity of this sort. They should keep these reports under their hats, investigate them and only after the results are clear, publicize them.

I suppose it was made public by some staffer or perhaps even by medical personnel outside the cause's staff. I suppose it's hard to lock down entirely the release of this sort of information. But if the publicity was actually engendered by the people working on the cause, I'd say to them, "put a sock in it" until you have some concrete results of a proper investigation.

[Cronos]

There are a lot of things that can cause Parkinson's syndrome in a younger person, and usually it's not your classic Parkinson's disease. It can be a side effect to numerous medications and can go away when you stop taking the medication.

That's why we Catholics are sceptics! We take everything with a pinch of salt and the Church demands really tough criteria to consider someone among the canons of saints.