I know, I know, first I dream of becoming a dictator, now a saint. Make of it what you will. It turns out, however, that becoming a saint is a lot easier than I thought. Reuters reports that:
The Vatican may have found the "miracle" they need to put the late Pope John
Paul one step closer to sainthood — the medically inexplicable healing of a
French nun with the same Parkinson’s disease that afflicted him.
Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the Catholic Church official in charge of promoting
the cause… said the "relatively young" nun, whom he said he could not identify for
now, was inexplicably cured of Parkinson’s after praying to John Paul after his
death last April 2…." (italics added).
A surprisingly frank report in Catholic World News hits the nail on the head:
Last
November, in commenting on the progress of the cause for Pope John
Paul’s beatifiction, his former secretary, Archbishop Stanislas
Dziwisz, said that there would be no problem finding a miracle to
advance the cause– or rather, that the problem would be to select one
miracle from among the many reported.
Indeed. I would be more impressed, however, if the cure rate of those who prayed to John Paul exceed that of those who prayed to Elvis. Will the Vatican be performing a t-test? I suspect not.
In anycase, to get my candidacy for sainthood going would you please ask in my name for something good to happen to you today. Go on, what have you go to lose? "In the name of Alex Tabarrok I pray that my article will be accepted by the AER." Try it out! If something good does happen please note the miracle in the comments section. Do not comment if nothing happens. Thanks!
Hey, my hair seems thicker, browner! And I finally found just the right instrumental variable to make my regression work. Thanks St. Alex!
I didn’t spill me coffee transfering it from my Starbucks cup to my insulated travel mug (and I do that sometimes!). Dios mio!
I prayed for a cheap apartment in Taipei and got one.
It has wifi and an xbox too. I won’t consider it
a miracle till I get an xbox 360 though…
peace,
A
Isn’t having to be dead first a drawback to being a saint?
Unfortuneatly the key italicized word in your post is a requirement of Sainthood. You have to be dead. Also, it doesn’t really have any substantive effect. Sainthood is merely the recognition that you made it into heaven. What you should be looking for is an assumption. Like Mary, you want to be assumed into heaven. It doesn’t require any work. You don’t even have to answer a prayer. It’s totally awesome.
Checking the fine print, you do have to be dead to be a saint, better stick with your plan to be a dictator.
According to Father Guido Sarducci, circa 1980, you needed to “hava threea miracles” to become a saint, although there was some dispute regarding how many of those could be card tricks.
Have the grading standards been lowered to one miracle, or was Father Guido Sarducci never an acceptable source for Catholic theology?
I prayed that I would have a good night at the poker tables, and made $1k. Don’t know if that counts as a good miracle or Satan’s work though…
Wouldn’t the church need some pretty good evidence that the nun in question did not also pray to Elvis?
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