(August 7, 2017 at 4:35 pm)pabsta Wrote: Similar to the case with Fatima, no one can explain the claims by Bernadette or the healings that have been happening ever since.
As the ability to diagnose medical conditions improves, the authenticated miraculous healings of Lourdes unsurprisingly starts to vanish. There have been absolutely zero recorded cases where someone who lost a limb regenerated that limb by going to Lourdes. If the waters at Lourdes had true medical value you would see physicians prescribing it, and pharmaceutical companies attempting to make money off of it. You don't see this, however.
My mother is a Doctor (an Internist to be specific) and raised Catholic, and she said that such miracle cures can be easily explained by any number of things including by not limited to misdiagnosis, the placebo effect, treatments starting to take effect, or simply people diagnosing themselves and having nothing actually wrong with them.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
