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Wanna bet?

God performs the miracle through the saint's intercession, the same way he performs a miracle on behalf of any other Christian who prays for another, so you lose the bet. Sorry.

I thought "real Christians" like you didn't gamble, though, so I guess I learned something today.

37 posted on 03/14/2006 1:10:04 PM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)

Like most Catholics you don't even seem to know what your own church teaches

After John Paul died on April 2, the woman's superior-general asked all the other sisters in their community in France to pray to the late pope to intervene to help the woman. On June 2, she was cured, Oder said.

Sounds to me like they were praying for the pope to intervene. And that my friend is idolatry because

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;1Tim 2:5

one mediator and that is Jesus. Anyone seeking healing should go directly to the Lord Jesus not a dead pope