Relics: What They Are and Why They Matter by Joan Carroll Cruz Theology Don't let Mother Teresa's critics

Don't let Mother Teresa's critics win

and a concluding prayer

the author shows that the incorruption of the saints' bodies fits into neither category but constitutes a much greater phenomenon which is unexplained by modern science even to this day

yet one God

Relics: What They Are and Why They Matter by Joan Carroll Cruz Theology Don't let Mother Teresa's criticsScripture speaks of miracles wrought through relics: a dead man was raised when Elishas bones touched him, and the clothing of Jesus and His apostles healed the sick. In the early Church, Masses were celebrated over the bones of the martyrs, and phials of their blood have affected countless miracles. Direct successors of the Apostles themselves speak of venerating relics; Church Fathers encourage it; throughout the ages of Catholic legacy, relics of