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...involuntary and unenthusiastic, Pope Benedict XVI has, nonetheless, faced criticisms surrounding this association since his election in 2005. As such, he should take the public perception of his actions into consideration before executing them. In this case, while the Pope may have meant for the reinstatement to help heal the growing rifts within the Catholic Church, it led to an unforeseen result: a serious objection by the international community. The Pope should have vetted Williamson more extensively, understanding the great weight of his decision to reinstate him and taking into account the offense to the Jewish community that such...
Health, by definition, is the sine qua non of everything else. If you're dead, serenity is academic. So we convince ourselves that while our medicine is strong and our doctors are wise, our prayers may heal...
...Powerful Is Prayer? For most believers, the element of religious life that intersects most naturally with health is prayer. Very serious theologians believe in the power of so-called intercessory prayer to heal the sick, and some very serious scientists have looked at it too, with more than 6,000 published studies on the topic just since 2000. Some of them have been funded by groups like the John Templeton Foundation - part of whose mission is to search for overlaps of religion and science - but others have come from more dispassionate investigators...
...help them discover the meaning for themselves. What is the meaning for you? An example of that: I remember a mother of a child with cancer who said, "God is going to heal my son." Well, the doctors knew that God wasn't going to heal her son--I still held out--but eventually she came to the understanding that God was not going to heal her son. She said, "Well, you know, I didn't listen to God well. God has another plan for my son, a greater plan." For her, the fact that she could feel that...
...person--the biological, the social, the psychological and the spiritual. I think we as a society, and the medical profession in general, need to really think through these issues, because it would be great to function as a team, to really take care of the whole person and to heal that person in whatever way that means...