Some people I know with the same life-threatening illnesses did not survive. They also had good doctors and good people praying for them. But they died anyway. Some survive through a fighting spirit, positive attitude, excellent medicines and physicians. All with the wisdom of God. Nothing to do with this ordinary person, Fernando Suarez.

Whether touched by Fernando Suarez or not, just as many survive, and as many die. Where’s the magic? Where’s the miracle of The Healing Priest if his track record is no better than hospital statistics?

Empirically, 50 percent of the medically treated patients get cured, and 50 percent succumb. If Suarez can defy this statistic of 50-50; if he can claim that everyone, everyone he’s touched has gotten rid of the illness, then he has a miracle going. The Vatican will make him a living saint.

How much effort has Fernando Suarez taken to get rid of this title of Healing Priest? He can, if he starts all his sessions with "Don’t say ‘The Healing Priest’. Say ‘The Healing God’" He can make the impressionable and gullible say "The Healing God". Fernando Suarez can stop this sacrilegious nomenclature. Or is he enjoying this self-created proximity to Jesus Christ the Healer?

The sick will live or die despite the touch of Fernando Suarez. What for is he collecting donations from all around him? The cure may not be due to his touch. The cure may have been from chemotherapy or surgery or aspirin or the direct mercy of God. Or mind over matter. Nothing to do with Fernando Suarez.

Those poor, ignorant, gullible people will pawn their beddings to give money to Suarez because they think it was Suarez who "cured" them. They forget about the other medical treatments they received, and the direct prayers to God that were answered by The Almighty.

Way back in the Middle Ages, the desperately infirm were seeking out so-called magic healers. A person who is very ill will grasp on to anything and anyone with a "cure." That is why Snake Oil made many salesmen rich. The desperately ill used up a lot of this cure-all Snake Oil. Fernando Suarez is more accessible these days than good Snake Oil.

The RC Church authorities are also questioning the veracity of Suarez. Bishops are uncomfortable with the funds Suarez is raking in from his activities.

Said Bishop Jose Oliveros who canceled a scheduled session of Suarez at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Malolos:

"We recognize the need of healing of the body through prayer...that is theologically sound. Now, whether [Suarez] is an instrument of God for healing of the body and soul... that is still to be determined."

There are millions around the world who are cured of life-threatening diseases, and they have never heard of much less been touched by Fernando Suarez. The stats of those in hospitals (getting well or dying) is the same as the stats of those touched by Fernando Suarez. Half live, half die. So, where’s Fernando Suarez’s magic touch?

With all that money collected, his staff can afford to create hundreds of websites attesting to his "miraculous cures." And build more graven images for the gullible to bow down to, despite the Bible’s warning: "I am a jealous God."