The treatment for terminal cancer that Annapolis resident Mary Ellen Heibel took at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2004 and early 2005 worked beyond anyone’s wildest hopes, wiping out malignant tumors in her lungs, liver, stomach and chest. Her doctor did not expect it, nor could he explain it.
Surely the outcome was remarkable, but was it – in the sense applied by the Roman Catholic Church in such cases – a miracle?
In a few weeks, a committee appointed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore will begin exploring that question, examining 11 witnesses, including Heibel, pressing her doctors, nurses and friends in an attempt to understand what happened. The findings gathered at the archdiocese’s downtown offices will be shipped to Rome, and ultimately will bear on a campaign to have Francis X. Seelos, the 19th-century Maryland priest to whom Heibel had turned in prayer for help, canonized as a saint.
For only the fifth time in its 200-year history, the archdiocese has launched a test of faith and science to help the Vatican determine whether one of its own was not only exemplary in virtue during life but now has the power in death to intercede with God. In the end, it will be up to the pope to rule on whether Seelos is to join the men and women held up by the church through the centuries as models of holiness.
“Did what happened come about by the intercession of Blessed Seelos? That’s what we have to discover,” said the Rev. Gilbert J. Seitz, the judicial vicar who heads the committee, emphasizing that its job is not to judge the case but to gather information in a process akin to taking a deposition.
Source: Baltimore Sun
The all due respect to Mrs. Mary Ellen Heibel her ‘miracle’ was the result of the treatment she received, not the intervention of Francis X. Seelos. There is no way the Archdiocese of Baltimore will be able to determine if Mrs. Heibel’s remarkable recovery was due to divine intervention because the woman had medical treatment.
Regardless if the treatment exceeded the expectations of the medical community, is it more plausible the treatment alone did this, or some dead Priest who talks directly with God intervened on Mrs. Heibel’s behalf?
The very notion of intervention for Mrs. Heibel is beyond silly when just today a passenger jet carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean killing all but one person.
I am most certain most of the people on the The Airbus 310 operated by Yemenia airlines which was flying to Comoros from Yemen were praying for their lives, but apparently no one was listening. How arrogant and self-important does a person have to be to believe there was a divine intervention for their life, but not for countless others who die tragically every day.
Mrs. Heibel should be thanking her Doctors, the medical community, the nurses, the person who changed her bedsheets, the person who swept the floor at the hospital, the person who took out the trash, the person who made her oatmeal, the person who designed the gowns which leave your ass freezing before she ever gives thanks to some dead priest who did NOTHING!!!!!
Thankfully we have Mr. Jake Hess to remind us how awful things would be if God wasn’t directly looking out for you, glorious you, because really the world revolves are you.
Cops: Virginia Father Lured Son Home, Then Shot Him
AXTON, Va. — A college student who was wounded in a shooting that killed his mother and brother told police his father lured him to the family’s house in southwest Virginia. The father later killed himself, authorities said.
Timothy Carter, 22, remained in fair condition Monday at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Authorities said the father, William Ronald Carter, shot his wife, Bonnie, 56, and their 29-year-old son William Ronald Carter Jr. early Sunday. Sheriff Lane Perry said the father shot and wounded Timothy, who was able to escape, and then killed himself before authorities arrived at the burning home.
The three bodies were discovered shortly after midnight in the basement of the home in Axton. The fire is being investigated as an arson, the Henry County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
William Ronald Carter will be forgiven for murdering his wife and oldest son, because no matter how heinous an act against humanity you commit, you’ll will be absolved if you ask for forgiveness. How can any reasonable person actually believe you can be absolved of all your sins just by asking for forgiveness?
Sounds to me like another man-made law which allows people to act how they really want, then run and hide behind the great skirt of Christianity by saying your sorry and professing love for God. It is exactly like a little child who gets caught eating a bag of cookies, asks for forgiveness, begs Mommy or Daddy not to punish them and says it will never happen again.
When a neighbor was asked for information about William Ronald Carter the response was he was a good Christian.
“I’ve known them my whole life, even when I was in school,” she said of the family “They’ve always been such nice, Christian people. Good people.”
I am glad William Ronald Carter will enjoy eternity relaxing in the presence of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ while is surviving son spends the rest of his mortal life recovering from the physical and emotional scars of his Christian father.
CLAYTON, Ga. — Naked time got a little out of hand for a former Gainesville mayor.
Authorities arrested Mark Musselwhite and charged him with public indecency last weekend after state Department of Natural Resources officers found him sitting nude at his Rabun County campsite.
Officers had received a complaint about a naked man walking along a nearby road earlier in the day, but the 43-year-old Musselwhite said he was not the same man.
Musselwhite, a Republican, was elected to the Gainesville City Council in 2000, where he served for six years, including a stint as mayor. He lost a bid for a state Senate seat in 2006.
He could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press on Saturday.
Source: Associated Press
People are either crazy, or on the road to being crazy. This is fact. Forget the Primary Care Physician, everyone needs a Primary Care Psychiatrist. How does an individual go from running for Senator to deciding it’s a great idea to take his trouser mule out for a leisurely stroll?
