The Vatican has a sick sense of humor. Or so says Michael Kinsley, writing at Politico in response to the news that after fast-tracking his sainthood application, the Holy See is getting ready to beatify the late Pope John Paul II. The pontiff qualifies because he supposedly cured a nun named Marie Simon-Pierre of Parkinson's disease from the grave. (Parkinson's, which Kinsley suffers from, is a rather handy condition for miracle-performing purposes, as there's no way to definitively diagnose the neurodegenerative disease.) Kinsley says it's pretty funny, if your sense of humor runs toward the dark and twisted, to watch a Catholic pope rise through the heavenly ranks for curing a single individual of a disease that might be completely cured by stem-cell research, which the church adamantly opposes. "Congratulations to Simon-Pierre. It's miraculous what a miracle can do. But I could use a miraculous cure for Parkinson's, too, as could millions of others around the world who have the disease or will develop it," he writes. "And the main force preventing such a miracle is the Roman Catholic Church."
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| Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011
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