Hey, Quick ! We need a Saint

This is truly unbelievably “miraculous.”

The Pope has added one more to the long list of Saints which now adorn the Catholic Calendar.

“Mother Teresa”, the Nun who ministered to the very poor in India has performed, or so the Catholic church maintains, the two miracles required for the declaration of Sainthood.

It seems that the Vatican Committee charged with the investigation and final verification of Miracles has decided that Mother Theresa has indeed performed these two miraculous happenings.

The first miracle required for Beatification was confirmed by the Vatican as having occurred in 1998, one year after her death, when an Indian woman, named Monica Besra of Calcutta, who suffered from an abdominal tumor, placed a picture of Mother Teresa upon her abdomen.

“There was a beam of light, coming from the picture, which went directly to the cancer growing in my stomach. And my Cancer was cured.” so said Mrs. Monica Besra.

The doctors of the hospital where Mrs. Besra was treated insisted that the tumor was not cancerous, but definitely benign, and that the remission was due to the medical treatment and was in no way miraculous.

The Vatican Committee, who needed a “miracle” for the Beatification of Mother Teresa chose to believe Mrs. Besra and discounted the statements issued by the hospital and its medical staff.

A second “miracle” was needed for the Canonization of Teresa :

Here come the nuns of the “Missionaries of Charity”, the Order founded by Teresa, who quickly publish a flyer in which they make the following claim:

This second miracle performed by Teresa was the curing of a Brazilian man, on the 9^th of December 2008, who suffered, so claimed the nuns, from an “incurable” brain tumor. When his wife prayed and asked for Teresa's help, her husband was cured instantly.

In fact, when the surgeon entered the room to perform an operation on the man's brain, he found him awake and in perfect health.

(One wonders why, confronted by an “incurable” brain tumor, a surgeon would try to operate)

So, now the Catholic Church has its required two miracles and as quickly as the ink can be put on paper and before it can dry, the Pope announces that on the 4^th day of September 2016, Mother Teresa will become a Saint.

The normal five year waiting period between the death and commencement of Beatification had been reduced to three years, now there was no time to be lost. A person, famous all over the world was found in Teresa and some good news could help in covering all the horror news the Catholic church had been suffering from over the last number of years.

And on such flimsy evidence a new Saint is born.

Bertstravels

can only shake his head at such blatant trickery