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Updated: 04:52 PM EDT

Drive to Make Pope John Paul II a Saint Gains Momentum
By CRISPIAN BALMER, Reuters



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VATICAN CITY (April 10) - Pope John Paul might have performed a miracle in 1998, according to his long-time secretary, boosting a popular drive to put the deceased Pontiff on the fast track to sainthood.

Two Italian newspapers quoted the secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, as saying that a wealthy American Jew recovered from incurable cancer after receiving Holy Communion from the Pope.

"Here is the first miracle," said La Stampa newspaper as Catholic faithful from around the world clamoured for the Vatican to cut the red tape surrounding canonisations and proclaim John Paul a saint straightaway.

The crowds at the Pope's funeral on Friday chanted "Subito Santo" ("make him a saint immediately"), putting pressure on the next pope to bow to the popular will.
One of the prerequisites for sainthood is that the candidate should have performed a miracle, usually a physical healing which doctors are at a loss to explain.

Italian newspapers said on Sunday there was already a thick dossier of miracles attributed to John Paul while he was alive, including the case of the unnamed American Jew.

Dziwisz is quoted by both La Stampa and Il Giornale dailies as saying that a millionaire American dying of a brain tumour insisted on seeing the Pope in the summer of 1998.

He was allowed to attend a private papal Mass and during the service took Communion, which is reserved for Catholics. Dziwisz said he realised he wasn't Catholic because he didn't know the service and afterwards gently admonished him.

"A few weeks later a friend phoned me to say that the tumour disappeared within a few hours," Dziwisz said. In recounting the story, he does not claim that the Pope performed a miracle, saying instead that the incident showed "the power of God".

Other Italian dailies were full of different tales of reported medical miracles


La Repubblica newspaper quoted Brasilian Cardinal Francesco Marchisano as saying he himself recovered his ability to speak after the Pope touched his throat following an operation that had left his vocal cords paralysed.

Corriere della Sera recounted the tale of a Mexican boy suffering from terminal leukaemia who regained his health after meeting the Pope in May 1990.

"God works in great and wonderful ways," said Mexican Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan.

Reports of purported miracles also started to emerge from the Pope's native Poland.

The PAP news agency reported that a 16-year-old named only as Rafal R. from the Polish town of Lubaczow claimed to have been cured from life-threatening lymph gland cancer after being comforted by the Pope.

"Despite the gloomy medical forecasts, the tumour went into remission. Rafal has no doubts he owes his recovery to John Paul II," said the head of a foundation that helps cancer patients.

Church rules say the first step to sainthood, known as "opening a cause", cannot start until five years after a death.

But John Paul, who broke many procedural rules in his long papacy, set a precedent by breaking that one too. In 1999, he granted a dispensation and let Mother Teresa's sainthood cause start only two years after her death.

(Additional reporting by Philip Pullella)


04/10/05 19:13 ET

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In 1999, Pope John Paul waived the five-year waiting rule before starting the process to make Mother Teresa a saint.

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