On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:22:42 -0500 Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> writes:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12191423
To be beatified and later canonized in the Catholic Church, the first requirement is that you got to be dead, then usually one miracle is required for beatification, and two for canonization, although the (living) pope has the option of waiving the miracles requirement.
The miracles requirement is one of miraculous healings, which means that the healing in question is supposed to be certified by a panel of physicians and medical scientists as having no natural explanation. Then once that has been gotten out of the way, the Church can then, if it so wishes, certify the healing as a miracle. In the olden days, when medicine was much less advanced, it was much easier to get healings certified, since when there was less medical knowledge, there were more healings that could not be scientifically explained. Now, its generally much harder to get a healing certified as being miraculous since medical science can explain much more now a days. In fact in some of the more recent beatifications, there have been accusations of chicanery on the part of the Church, to get certain healings certified as being miraculous, when there is evidence that the healings in question were explainable in terms of contemporary medical science. Of course, the miracles requirement can always be waived, as was the case in a number of canonizations that were done under Pope John Paul II.
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