Monday, February 04, 2008
FATHER FERNANDO SUAREZ
If you've been following the course of events resolving around the healing ministry of of Fr. Fernando Suarez--a ministry that began in the Philippines, progressed to the Canadian religious congregation called Companions of the Cross, and has returned to the Philippines in the form of Fr. Suarez's guest appearances at healing Masses there--you will be interested in the latest development.
DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan -- Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz on Saturday said he will stop Fr. Fernando Suarez, known in the country as the “healing priest,” the next time he visits Pangasinan and tries to conduct healing masses in his archdiocese.
Cruz, whose archdiocese covers 26 parishes in central Pangasinan, said too many questions hound Suarez’s “miraculous healing.”
Suarez was at the St. Therese Parish here on December 28 for a “very special day of prayer and healing.”
Cruz said that healing mass was held without his permission.
The Catholic Church’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith requires a local bishop’s permission for Church-related activities conducted by those who do not belong to the diocese. Suarez is a member of the Canada-based religious congregation called Companions of the Cross.
“There’s no problem that some people are gifted to cure as practically all saints have done this during their lives,” Cruz said.
But he said with Suarez’s popularity now, his healing masses are “open to abuses, like superstition, hysteria, fanaticism, and money.”
“There is already a question of hysteria, not to mention credulity [among the people],” Cruz said. “It is too much to say that Father Suarez resurrects the dead.”
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