Catholics/The Body of St. Padre Pio

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Father, do you feel there is enough to determine whether St. Padre Pio has been resurrected or is an incoruptable?

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He certainly isn't resurrected.  That notion is tantamount to blasphemy.  If a body is incorrupt, that means nothing in itself.  There are all kinds of reasons why human bodies decompose at different rates.  A similar story was told about John XXIII.  It turned out that he had been secretly embalmed, so there was no surprise at after only forty years, he had not decomposed much.

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