THE Vatican may have found the “miracle” it needs to put the late Pope John Paul II one step closer to sainthood — the medically-inexplicable healing of a French nun with the same Parkinson’s disease that afflicted the pope himself.

IF the Catholic bishops feel discouraged by last week’s Prime Time survey, which shows that only 50% of the population now attends mass each week, they should remember that the Catholic church faces bigger challenges elsewhere.