This is bizarre …

… Is the Pope Atheist? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The central idea of our difference between theory and practice is that at no point during the emergency period did the drivers of the ambulance consider taking [the injured] John Paul The Second to a chapel for a prayer, or some equivalent form of intercession with the Lord, to give the sacred first right of refusal for the treatment.

You don't have to go to a chapel to pray. You don't have to go anywhere to get in touch with the Lord. He happens to be everywhere. Prayer, after all, is a lifting up of the mind and heart to God, and that can be done wherever your mind and heart happen to be. When you are injured or ill, the first thing you should do is seek treatment. That is the moral thing to do. You can still pray all the while.