Vatican claims Pope John Paul II performed ‘miracle’ cure on nun

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.

Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the Catholic Church official in charge of promoting the cause to declare the late pope a saint, said that an investigation into the healing had cleared an initial probe by doctors.

Msgr Oder said the “relatively young” nun, whom he said he could not identify for now, was inexplicably cured of Parkinson’s after praying to John Paul after his death last April 2.