In this two-part series with demonologist and author Adam Blai, we dig into the true nature of miracles. What is a miracle and what is
Every so often there is an uproar of public excitement among the Filipino faithful over news from neighbors of a “perspiring” or ”bleeding” statue, or
June 18th is the sixtieth anniversary of the first vision in Garabandal. The events were controversial from the start, largely because of the negative evaluation
God gives us many types of miracles. In all of them, God’s love and power are manifested and released through prayer. Miracles Many people who
Dr. Ricardo Castañon Gomez is not well-known to many Catholics. But he should be. Atheist Richard Dawkins has apparently never heard of Dr. Ricardo Castañon
The Lord has come to me many times to say: Tell my people how much I love them. Tell my people that they are not
I have been surprised by three miracles in my life so far- a physical healing and the multiplication of heating oil and of decorative wood.
My meditation on St. Veronica has been ongoing for years now. This Lent, as I sat in the church of St. Veronica praying the Stations
These days I am washing dishes by hand, one by one, more carefully and thoughtfully, before putting them in the dishwasher. It’s not just because
“Gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation.” Our Lady of Good Help gave this mission to
Did you know that among Christians, the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most visited pilgrimage site in the world? It is estimated
Emmanuel Carrère’s lately controversial The Kingdom takes on a project of demystification: it is an imagining of how St. Luke might have joined the early
Recently, a local priest delivered a compelling homily on the miracles of Jesus. Before his homily was over, he had challenged every person to
‘It looks full of hard words and signs and numbers, not very entertaining or understandable looking, and I wonder whether it will make people
INTRODUCTION In this post, I examine whether I, as a faithful Catholic, and as a scientist who holds that miracles are possible must believe that
I have come to see my Catholic faith as a life-altering journey, sometimes tearing down the strongholds of selfishness and pride, sometimes lifting me up
“We never give more honor to Jesus than when we honor his Mother, and we honor her simply and solely to honor him all the
Plato realized that the intelligible is immaterial by identifying a fundamental difference between the intelligible and the material. The intelligible is universal, while the
One afternoon, at some sort of parish event, one of the young women from the parish asked me, “You believe in miracles, don’t you?” My
Do we really need to believe in certain miracles to be Christians? That is the question Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times asked Evangelical
Is there room in the modern mind for what we would call ‘biblical miracles?’ Today, we lean on modern medicine, doctors, science as the answers
The Book of Genesis outlines material creation focused on the earth. Material creation is in stages with the final stage, the creation of man. A
