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To: NYer; marshmallow
Healing of Nohad El Shami

Essentially, one source for this "miracle".

In any event I have always been skeptical of all "miraculous healings" which have also been duplicated in a "spontaneous", non miraculous, situation.

I am sill waiting for a missing limb or eye(s) to be restored.

Further, why the unseemly haste in the last few years to fine new Saints?

107 posted on 01/30/2006 2:06:49 PM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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To: OLD REGGIE
why the unseemly haste in the last few years to fine new Saints?

I don't believe the word 'haste' applies so much as 'expansion'. JPII canonized more saints during his pontificate than any other pope. All of these individuals had to pass through the same rigorous examination. He expanded the number to include those from more diverse backgrounds. St. Gianna - for mothers with difficult pregnancies, for example and St. Nimatullah Al Hardini, a Maronite monk, embraced by those in an Eastern Catholic Tradition.

From what I understand, Benedict XVI plans to slow down the number of canonizations.

154 posted on 01/30/2006 8:47:28 PM PST by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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