It is really a shame that we are still shackled to bronze age mythology and that the Vatican, with a straight face, proclaim that based on two “miracles” they can declare someone to be a saint.
“At the time Mary MacKillop answered the prayers of a woman dying of leukaemia, there was a lot of static in the air. In China 43 million people were dying of starvation in one of the world’s worst famines.

Thirty years later in the 1990s, when MacKillop answered the prayers of a woman dying of lung cancer, 3.8 million were dying in the Congo wars, 800,000 in the Rwanda genocide, a quarter of a million in the Yugoslav wars.

My question is when the 43 million were dying where was our so called benevolent deity?  I mean really, you think a little magic toward the 43 million would save more lives than one person dying of leukaemia in Australia?   The sense of scale being established is this really setting a good precedent?

“If MacKillop were being canonised because she was a good woman who did exceptional deeds while on earth, there would be less need to be querulous about the excessive and sycophantic coverage of her impending canonisation. To many Australian Catholics it is a big event, and the media can hardly ignore it. But the issue at the heart of the canonisation is the power of prayer to bring about miraculous medical cures through divine intervention. It is misleading and potentially dangerous for the media to endorse such an idea.”

We are giving way too much attention to mystical bullcookery based reality these days.   It needs to stop.