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1. A wonderful story of a brave and faith-filled person. The only problem is that God does not will that young people have cancer.

   Posted By: mjf, Lidcombe

2. How on earth can Rome single out one teenager whose life 'exuded a love of God' in the face of illness and succumbing to the disease when the world is full of them?
   
   
   
   

   Posted By: L Newington Bendigo Victoria

3. You're right, L. Newington. May God bless and welcome her, and all the others who've responded so wonderfully to this affliction - but why aren't the others being beatified too?
   It feels too political. Wonderful for the Focolare movement, but for the rest of us?

   Posted By: Joan Seymour Albion, Vic.

4. How indeed, LNewington? There is nothing like having a cheer squad form an influential (dubious as it may be) sub-sect of Holy Mother Church to push the cause of beatification.
   I'd be interested to know whether there have been any miracles.

   Posted By: JR,Sydney

5. Praised be God for this beautiful girl and her witness to Jesus Christ.

   Posted By: Barbaranne McGrady, Victoria

6. MJD: God allows (permits) or ordains everything. He knew she would be a light to others just like her middle name indicates. I think her first name means 'clear' so she was a 'Clear Light'.
   Pax Christi from Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi
   
   

   Posted By: Catherine Deo Gracious

7. I watched the Mass and I was very moved. I have been praying for miracles of healing for the sick, suffering, priests, youth and I feel I am being answered by this lovely child who shows us that He is answering our prayers. Mysterious, but happening. I pray for her parents because I feel their loss. May God bless each and every one who is in this circle of faith. I pray that she will be the answer to some of our youth espcially those who have fallen away in this so called modern world.
   

   Posted By: Frances Frederickson/glenwood, IL U.S.A.

8. Joan: It's not as though others who died a similar death are somehow missing out.
   Beatification and canonization are not a reward for the person concerned, since she is now beyond that. They hold her up as a model for the rest of us to follow in our afflictions.

   Posted By: Lance Eccles, Goulburn NSW

9. A true saint at such a young age who offered all to Jesus in the wake of her suffering. Blessed Chiara please touch my family for healing. - PA, USA

   Posted By: JOSEPH RIELLO

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