Hokum-Balderdash Assay

Just got wind of a 3-year Stanford University clinical trial that's underway to study the efficacy of Healing Touch (HT) [1]. What is HT...

That deluded priest Fernando Suarez is back in the country. At the end of this month the Pied Piper is leading his flock to Montemaria, Bat...

Last week Fr. Fernando Suarez celebrated a healing Mass in Los Angeles, California. Some 14,000 attended. Well you're in for a surprise...

As always the barmaid hits the nail on the head. She tells Jesus and Mo , "You cannot escape the fact that when you say 'God says X...

Imagine the following: There is in fact a god or gods. This deity or committee of supernatural beings in fact created the universe, is omnip...

When I asked a Christian friend how her church defined faith, she directed me to the bible, specifically to Hebrews 11:1. Her text follows t...

The number of variants among believers was brought home to me recently when I confronted Cathy of Touched by a Miracle about my com...

Some 25 years ago psychologists Sheryl Wilson and Theodore Barber identified what they called fantasy-prone personality (FPP). The 14 charac...

While in a car on a 10-minute ride with, among others, a pastor and his wife, the conversation turned to health and disease. The pastor'...

In his March 20 2008 article " Reflections on healing, faith, funds, Fr. Suarez " Fr. Virgilio Aderiano Abad Ojoy, theologian and ...

The end of the world ... again. The group follows no Bible. It doesn’t even have a name. The followers of "Pagtulun-an sa Dios Amahan...

Another child dies because of religion , because of belief in the supernatural, because of faith in the supposed incredible/unlimited power ...

[I sent a copy of the following to the Inquirer but doubt it was published] In his March 14, 2008 article " Faith Healers " Michae...

Mark your calendars folks. June 6, 2008 will be a red letter day. That is, if we are to believe a Frenchman who goes by the name of Antoll M...

Imagine yourself being attended to in the ER: your blood pressure has dropped to a dangerously low level, your white blood cell count has sh...

"4G Antioxidants" is one of the latest food supplements to hit the market. The 4Gs refer to substances contained in each capsule o...

About a week ago, in the comment section of one of my blog entries, a woman shared her story : My husband, a patient with kidney disease, ha...

Last week I sent the same email to all three addresses provided in the Suarez healing ministry contact page . I wrote: The website of Fr. Fe...

To those who believe in the powers of Fr. Fernando Suarez and cannot imagine how the healings can be anything other than genuine, and to tho...

Healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez belongs to the community of priests known as Companions of the Cross . On February 6, 2008, prompted by ...