“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?
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.
Ok
You replied to a decent explanation with a dumb proposition instead of looking anything up.
I didn’t drag you into this comment section