Michael Kinsley: If we used stem cells, we wouldn't need miracles
(NEWSER) - News that the Vatican has given the late pontiff John Paul II credit for a miracle related to Parkinson's leads Michael Kinsley—who has Parkinson's himself—to one conclusion: "The Roman Catholic Church has either a very good or a very bad sense of humor." After all, if the church dropped its opposition to stem cell research, maybe miracles for other sufferers wouldn't be necessary, he writes in Politico . In John Paul's feat, a nun says she prayed to him after he died, and, poof, her Parkinson's vanished. Vatican doctors say divine intervention is the only logical explanation. More»
