Vatican doctors have given it their stamp of approval:
[T]he medical council of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has recognized as inexplicable one healing attributed to the blessed John Paul II. A supposed “miracle” that, if it is also approved by theologians and the cardinals (as it is very likely), will bring the Polish Pope, who died in 2005, the halo of sainthood in record time, just eight years after his death.
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf explains what the medical council’s finding indicates:
Keep in mind that in the long process of coming to a reasonable surety that a miracle was worked by God through the intercession of the Blessed or Venerable in question, when it is a matter of a healing miracle, there is a board of medical doctors and experts that look at the evidence to try to determine a) what were the conditions, b) what actually happened and c) whether it is explicable in terms of the normal workings of nature and medicine. So, the approval of the “consulta medica” is a big step, but not the last step.
(Photo: Workers put together elements of a 13,8m tall sculpture of late Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa, southern Poland on April 7, 2013. By Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images.)
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