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

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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.

God Didn't Help Them

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.

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