Vatican Decries 'Religion of Health'

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Vatican Decries 'Religion of Health’

Vatican officials on Thursday held out Pope John Paul II’s stoic suffering with Parkinson’s disease as an antidote to the mentality that modern medicine must cure all, calling this a “religion of health” that is taking hold in affluent countries.

“While millions of people in the world struggle to survive hunger and disease, lacking even minimal health care, in rich countries the concept of health as well-being figures in creating unrealistic expectations about the possibility of medicine to respond to all needs and desires,” said the Rev. Maurizio Faggioni, a theologian and morality expert on the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.

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“The medicine of desires, egged on by the health care market, increases the request for pharmaceutical and medical-surgical services, soaks up public resources beyond all reasonableness,” Faggioni said.
 
Great quote. I wish they went a little further with the Religion of Health part. That is, there is an unexamined view that doctors and hospitals have become the high priests and temples of this religion and now presume to make moral rulings about life and under what circumstances life will begin, continue and end.

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There is a lot to this, not only with respect to disease and cures. When I realized I had to lose about 50 lbs I got all involved with the “my body is a temple” crowd an that can get pretty pagan after awhile. Everything revolves around sport, recreation, health food, body image, VO2 max, lactate threshold, on and on.

It’s important to take care of yourself but my physical well-being cannot become the most important thing in life, as I’m afraid it has become with a big segment of the population. Of course they’re smug because they’re not (or no longer) obese or smokers. It’s another area where one must strike a balance and maintain perspective.
 
I’m glad that the Vatican said this.

My mom is an RN nurse, and she is adamently AGAINST drinking the Blood of Christ. Why? Because my Church has about 6 chalices filled with Christ’s blood and people share the chalices at communion. She says that hepititis can be transferred and all that stuff. My mom has forbade me and my younger brother from drinking from the chalices at Mass. Have I done so? No, because the Blood of Christ is a gift. It is CHRIST’S BLOOD, and he would not allow people to get sick from partaking of his body and blood. My church has been doing this for around 3 years now, and has one person gotten sick from this? No. But my mom, being “learned” in medicine and health, is still against it.

When will she realize that God protects his people and that he controls everything, and that he wouldn’t let us get sick from participating in communion?

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There is a lot to this, not only with respect to disease and cures. When I realized I had to lose about 50 lbs I got all involved with the “my body is a temple” crowd an that can get pretty pagan after awhile. Everything revolves around sport, recreation, health food, body image, VO2 max, lactate threshold, on and on.

It’s important to take care of yourself but my physical well-being cannot become the most important thing in life, as I’m afraid it has become with a big segment of the population. Of course they’re smug because they’re not (or no longer) obese or smokers. It’s another area where one must strike a balance and maintain perspective.
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13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.” 17 But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6
 
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