could saint heal baby ?

Question

here's the link : http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702902.htm

i want to views on this case

i want to see views on this case*

Answer 1

The part that strikes me is the baby had a 90% chance of dying without a liver transplant.

What was the prognosis for the other 10% chance?

If that 10% was a full recovery, this is like throwing a pair of dice and then declaring it a miracle when they comes up two or three.

I am not a doctor, I do not know what was wrong with this child's liver. I would rely on the statistics for cases similar to this and for the consensus of expert scientific opinion.

There is much in science and medicine that we do not know. Sugar pills will cure people sometimes. While it is an interesting anomaly I do not see it as a proof that prayer or holy relics cured this child.

Now if they did the same with all their 'hopeless' cases, and got a major change in the outcomes that would be very intersting.

Answer 2

Well, people DO have miraculous cures that science doesn't understand. It's not only Catholics that have events like this occur.

Another troubling statement was this: "The child was diagnosed with fulminant liver failure," he said. "There was a 90 percent-plus chance that he wasn't going to survive without a liver transplant.

To me, 90% means that 10% of the children do well. This means the odds aren't in your favor, but it's not really a "miracle"

Answer 3

A big fat "Who knows?" from me. It really looks that way, but we don't know fully about the possible resilience of the human body (especially very new bodies with their rapid cellular processes), whether or not miracles have anything to do with saints, whether or not there is life after death, etc. Really, we don't even know that these are all the facts. Is it covered by another news source?

Answer 4

Saints do not heal. God heals. Saints intercede. When a miraculous healing occurs as a result of the intercession of a particular saint, it is a work of God.

Answer 5

The article says
"There was a 90 percent-plus chance that he wasn't going to survive without a liver transplant."

That means that he had a 10% or less chance of surviving. I think he just beat the odds.

Answer 6

Making saints is all politics like who gets the MBE in England.

Answer 7

I believe in the intercessory prayer of the saints for healing.

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Answer 8

I believe it. They happen all the time. How about the nun who was cured of Parkinson's disease from Pope John Paul II intersession? True again

Answer 9

Placebo pills heal people, what does that mean. You have the ability to heal yourself. The only thing that stops people is what they believe is possible.

Answer 10

I say nature is healing and being healed... and some people are just lucky enough to get healed along with it...