THURSDAY FEBRUARY 07 2002
Illness caused by sin says Vatican official
Presenting the Pope’s message for Lent, Archbishop Paul Cordes, the German head of the Vatican’s agency for humanitarian aid, maintained that there was scriptural authority for the idea that those who contract illnesses do so because they have sinned.
(His Holiness was not able to deliver his traditional Lenten message, personally, as he has been quite ill lately.)