Ep. 117: Investigating Miraculous Healings at Lourdes ... and a Pilgrimage
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The Seven Criteria for a Medical Explanation for Healing
There are seven criteria that must be met in order to rule out a medical explanation for a particular healing. The first criterion is that doctors must have previously confirmed the presence of the illness in a full diagnosis. And I guess this is kind of what you did when you were there with sister, with sister Mario. Mm hmm. That's right. So we heard from her physician who brought all of her documentation of her severe, severe rheumatoid arthritis, which actually started at the age of 43. She was on hundreds and hundreds of milligrams of morphine a day. You know, she chose to control her pain and just to make life bearable. But then to have
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