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This week the Catholic News Service reported that the cause for the canonization of Mother Teresa could "cross its last hurdle" if the Vatican validated a cure reported by a priest in Guwahati, India, on Sept. 5, the 10th anniversary of the beloved nun's death. The cure in question, originally reported by the Asian Catholic news agency UCA News, was described as "the disappearance of a half-inch kidney stone in his lower ureter...
Here is the timetable of the miracle, as provided to UCA News by the Archbishop of Guwahati , Thomas Menamparampil: The priest, Fr. V.M. Thomas, suffered several months with the stone, and had taken medications to no avail. Most kidney stones can be removed surgically, however, in what is often an outpatient procedure. Indeed, Fr. Thomas had scheduled a surgery for September 6 and entered the hospital for prep on the 5th. However, he reportedly asked and received permission to leave the hospital and celebrate a Mass at a children's home founded by Teresa. At the Mass he asked participants...
Clayton D. Miller ’10 doesn’t look like someone who would casually refer to himself in conversation as a Level 68 Dwarf Priest. Disarmingly polite, with a large buckled belt and a baseball cap that proudly reads “The Virginian,” Miller is every bit the Southern gentleman. And yet, surprisingly, every bit the World of Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter...
...been since their last confession. But Franca Gargiulo can't remember the last time. Gargiulo is a spiritually thoughtful woman who went to Catholic school as a girl and at 44 still attends Mass at St. Dominic Catholic Church in San Francisco. Confession--telling your sins to a priest and receiving absolution--is one of her faith's seven sacraments, but for Gargiulo it now seems as anachronistic as prayer veils and meatless Fridays. "It lost its efficacy for me," says Gargiulo. "It was too much a perfunctory exercise about church rules instead of Christ's teachings...
...ever make yourself truly objective.” According to McMillian, the first issue of “The Sixties” may cover the Whitney Museum’s Summer of Love exhibit, the recent film “Across the Universe,” and interviews with priest and anti-war demonstrator Daniel Berrigan. Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, now in his late 1970s, plans to contribute a book review with a perspective he describes as both “scholarly and personal.” Cox expressed similarities between protests against the Iraq war to the protest...