[dangus]

>> “That was no miracle,” said Roberto Focaccia, an infectious disease expert at the hospital where Daniela was treated. “Statistics show that an average of 50 percent of these patients die and the other 50 percent recover completely. She was lucky to be among the 50 percent who survive. “It worries me,” he added, “that so many people think that these small pieces of paper can replace the treatment available in any decent hospital in Brazil.” <<

Several points to be made to this idiot:

1. The Church is not alleging the case he refers to is necessarily a miracle. Out of 5,000 attributed miracles, the Church officially recognized two of them.

2. The Church plainly urges all people seeking miraculous cures that the ordinary action of God’s work is through man, and that the rejection of modern medicine is of no spiritual benefit. The Catholic Church firmly opposes Christian Science.

3. His assertion (or “accusation”) of the witnesses’ attribution of the “miracle” to the mere matter of the pills is plainly rebutted.

4. Can anyone truly fault someone for being thankful to God for being one of the “lucky ones,” so long as she does NOT encourage others to forego other means of cures?

[Andrew Byler]

“That was no miracle,” said Roberto Focaccia, an infectious disease expert at the hospital where Daniela was treated. “Statistics show that an average of 50 percent of these patients die and the other 50 percent recover completely. She was lucky to be among the 50 percent who survive. “It worries me,” he added, “that so many people think that these small pieces of paper can replace the treatment available in any decent hospital in Brazil.”

Who's to say these supposed natural healings are not really miracles that result from the prayers of the Church for the sick and afflicted?