How is a Christian supposed to face cancer?

The theme for World Cancer Day 2011 , which falls on February 4th is: "Teach children and teenagers to avoid UV exposure by being sun smart".


But beyond this year's specific theme, how are Christians supposed to face a disease like cancer?

Our instinct in the face of so much pain and humiliation, claims Monsignor Peter Fleetwood: "... is to scream at God , asking how a good God can allow it..." But he explains further, faith is meant to help us to be more than just creatures of instinct:"...Christian faith has a remarkable challenge in it: to believe that God, who is the basis of all life, is more powerful than than everything negative we have come across...".


Listen to Monsignor Peter Fleetwood, parish priest at St Joseph's Blundellsands in the Liverpool Archdiocese in this programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.
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