Posted on 03/23/2014 7:49:27 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
The Catholic belief of incorruptibility holds that if a body does not decay after death, the person is holy. It takes two miracles to become a saint; the Church once allowed a perfect corpse to count as one.
Incorruptibility is no longer a miracle, however, perhaps because so many tried to help God along. Oil and herbs were inserted into the muscle cavities of some older popes, for instance.
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, the Vatican used a wrapping technique similar to what was believed to have been applied to Jesus. It failed miserably. Only days after his death, his nose fell off, and a Swiss Guard fainted due to the stench while he was guarding the body.
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In 2000, Pope John Paul II had [Pope John XXIII] exhumed to be declared blessed, part of the progression to sainthood. The airtight coffin had left him virtually undisturbed, and the embalming team wanted to keep it that way.
After the popes internal organs were removed and analyzed, the body was placed in a stainless-steel tub for several weeks in a solution of formalin and alcohol, then neutralized for several weeks.
His body then undertook a series of baths in assorted solutions for months at a time, including various mixtures of ethanol, methanol, phenol, camphor, nitrobenzene, turpentine and benzoic acid.
Finally the body was bandaged in linen cloths saturated with a solution of mercury bichloride and ethanol. Then a second team ensconced him with wax on his face and hands. The entire process took about a year.
The Church decided not to rebury Pope John XXIII, instead putting him on display for pilgrims. More than 25,000 people visit St. Peters Basilica every day, and many faithful still believe the incorrupt state of his body is a miracle.
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Wow, that verse sums up the entire Catholic religion nicely.
I need to memorize more of my bible again, I’ve been slacking since my battalion days.
That passage is in reference to antichrist. Most of the old Protestant confessions identified the papacy as antichrist. Up until just over 100 years ago just about every Protestant knew the identity of antichrist and the great whore of Revelation. Rome (and Satan) must love all the prophecy pimps and weak easily-led preachers who have come along and obscured the truth.
Interestingly enough it was hearing an interview with a former priest that got me to begin studying the writings of historic Protestants. I had no idea how definite and united they were on this topic.
Here is what Spurgeon had to say:
“”It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. If there were to be issued a hue and cry for Antichrist, we should certainly take up this church on suspicion, and it would certainly not be let loose again, for it so exactly answers the description.”
“Popery is contrary to Christ’s Gospel, and is the Antichrist, and we ought to pray against it. It should be the daily prayer of every believer that Antichrist might be hurled like a millstone into the flood and for Christ, because it wounds Christ, because it robs Christ of His glory, because it puts sacramental efficacy in the place of His atonement, and lifts a piece of bread into the place of the Saviour, and a few drops of water into the place of the Holy Ghost, and puts a mere fallible man like ourselves up as the vicar of Christ on earth; if we pray against it, because it is against Him, we shall love the persons though we hate their errors: we shall love their souls though we loath and detest their dogmas, and so the breath of our prayers will be sweetened, because we turn our faces towards Christ when we pray.”
Antichrist in Our Midst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OCYXUhUoU
Well, lookie there.
yeah, but they did beat Roman Empire....
Yes but this article posting was take by many as a good chance to bash Catholic Church by many....
Do you mean not caring about dying or what happens when we are dead, or..... what?
I think they got Jesus mixed up with Michael Jackson. :-P
I hope they put up plenty of signs reading
NO SMOKING OR OPEN FLAMES.
Key word “often”. Must be Post-Vatican II.
This is either a Breaking Bad episode or one creepy episode of Martha Stewart.
Well bless their hearts!
Oh I care about what happens after death, I’m going to heaven.
I also care where other people are going.
Like this one?
Titan arum, corpse flower
The titan arum, the first of two flowers in this list nicknamed the corpse flower, carries the unfortunate designation of being "the worst smelling flower in the world." It smells like you guessed it a stinking, rotting corpse. (emphasis mine)
Source
Can Satan perform miracles?
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