Postulator says French nun's cure could be miracle for Pope John Paul

Published: 2006-01-31

ROME (CNS) -- The Polish priest charged with shepherding Pope John Paul II's sainthood cause said he believes the healing of a French nun suffering from Parkinson's disease could be the miracle needed for the pope's beatification. Msgr. Slawomir Oder, postulator of the cause, announced on Italian radio in late January that he had chosen the case of the French nun from among the many apparently miraculous healings people from around the world had reported to him. He told Catholic News Service Jan. 31 that the case involved a French religious who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's when she was "very young; it was a precocious onset." Pope John Paul had suffered from Parkinson's, a progressive disease that attacks the nervous system.

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