Science and the Miraculous

Science and the Miraculous takes readers through the Church's rigorous investigation of miraculous occurrences, including: healing miracles from life-threatening conditions;statues that exude human tears;Eucharistic hosts visually manifesting true flesh and true blood;visionaries who see the Virgin Mary in an ecstatic state;saints whose bodies lay in a state of perfect preservation for centuries;living people whose bodies are marked by the wounds of Christ's crucifixion;and more . . . The Catholic Church employs a combination of strict, centuries-old criteria for evaluating proposed cases of miracles with the most modern methods of medical examination to arrive at explanations for the purportedly inexplicable. If natural causes can be attributed or if frauds and hoaxes can be exposed, the Church will uncover the truth.