The timeline of his death is insane. He goes to a doctor for a sore throat one day and 10 days later he’s braindead from lukemia.
If anything the rapid death of 15 year old child from a random medical illness should shake your faith in god not strengthen it
“Today, prognoses have drastically improved; 10-year survival rates are estimated to be approximately 80-90% according to one study.[7][6][8]”
https://uscatholic.org/articles/201310/how-many-saints-are-there/
Revisions to the canonization process in 1983 ensured we will see more saints in the future. John Paul II eliminated the office of Promoter of the Faith, or, as it’s more commonly known, the Devil’s Advocate, a canon lawyer tasked with arguing against a person’s possible canonization. Consequently, John Paul II canonized more saints than the popes from the previous 500 years combined.
The boomers turned sainthood into a participation trophy lmao.
Meanwhile there are probably south american priests who got tortured to death by operation condor who the church still wont acknowledge
But I guess why would Francis acknowledge these guys when he was probably sending lists of names to the Argentine Junta
Now I know who to pray to when I’m debugging legacy code.
I sped read over it. My condolences to his family. Did the 15 year old do something cringe worthy of note? Seems like the pope is just being kind to what is no doubt a grieving family.
He was skilled in using Dreamweaver, Java, C++, and Ubuntu.[50]
Ubuntu
Am I supposed to dislike him?
Well it’s not just about the pope being kind. This kid is supposedly important to the church because he made a website that documents every recorded instance of Eucharistic miracles, i.e. all those times when the bread and wine totally turned into real human flesh and blood (trust me bro). which is weird to me, because isn’t that supposed to happen every time?
I don’t think anyone is really hating on this dead child, personally I find it a bit sad that he was indoctrinated to the degree that he spent his very short time on Earth on some ridiculous cult bullshit
Unsolicited theology
which is weird to me, because isn’t that supposed to happen every time?
Nah, the species of the host remain after transubstiation normally, as in the physically observable qualities of the bread and wine. The transubstiation happens metaphysically, which only makes sense if you detach the meaning of an object “being” something (being bread or being the body of Christ in this case) from what you observe physically. The thing that sets the eucharistic miracles apart is that both the physical and metaphysical parts of the host are transformed.
Makes sense though, if Catholics always expected the bread to turn into a bleeding piece of flesh then it would make Mass very disappointing when that hasn’t happened in a regular Sunday Mass in 2000-ish years.
