(February 8, 2016 at 10:32 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 10:28 am)mediocrates Wrote: The idea of an "approved Catholic Miracle" is really bizarre to me! lol!
What exactly are the miraculous criterion for approval?
They actually just need to determine if it actually was a miracle and not something that can be explained by natural causes. Like for example if a person who has cancer all of the sudden wakes up the next day with the cancer completely gone, they would need to determine if this was possible, medically. If the person's cancer had a 30% chance of being cured, for example, then they can't prove that it's a miracle. It would need to have a 0% chance of being cured. And they do this by investigating and interviewing the person's doctors, care givers, looking at ex rays, etc. It's usually a process that can take more than 10 years.
They (the Catholic Church hierarchy) lie so much, though, and so often. I think that they wait so long because they are afraid of "the other shoe" pulling the rug out from them. That is why the "seers" of Fatima were not canonized until after the death of Sister Lucia, even though Francisco, and Jacinta had died over 70 years earlier. The Vatican wanted to make sure that they were all dead, unless Lucia be exposed as a fraud. In fact, one hypothesis with respect to the death of Pope John Paul I (not JP II) is that he died after meeting with Sister Lucia, and she confessed to him that it was out boredom that her and her cousins had made the whole thing up. JP I, on hearing this news, died a few weeks later, out of shock.
