“It’s a beautiful thing that for the first time in history you can see a saint dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweatshirt. That’s a great message,” Father Carlos Acácio Gonçalves Ferreira, the shrine’s rector, said at the time. A Franciscan monk based at the tomb, noted that “many young people” were visiting.
Now get rid of the homophobia, sex abuse scandals, sexism, and anti-choice bullshit, mmkay?
Yeah this is weird. If anything I just feel bad the kid never lived a full life. It seems weird to me you could pray to some dead person, and then something good happens, that person is automatically blessed after like the 3rd incident? Is God not a jealous God in Catholicism?
Specifically, a miracle, a term reserved by the Catholic Church basically only for the most inexplicable good medical outcomes, which ⅔ of independent experts must agree on. Two miracles must happen (or 1 for martyrs) for someone to qualify for sainthood, and it’s still quite a process after that.
Yeah but doesnt that sound like a system rife with holes? What happens if I pray to my dead dog Snickers and get 3 miracles? Is she a saint? Maybe its just culture shock
The Catholic Church gets final say to what a miracle is and who becomes a saint. They prefer “false negatives” to “false positives” because their reputation could be compromised. As a result, the investigation is surprisingly rigorous. A ⅔ majority of diverse doctors, including atheists, must agree that there is no possible medical explanation.
There is a recent video by Half as Interesting about this, and many other sources. Please don’t bother me with this; I’m not comfortable defending the church I have happily exited.