‘We need a miracle,’ Lebanese nun says a month after Beirut blasts

Sr Marie Justine el Osta had just begun a spiritual retreat in a mountain convent 27 miles north of Beirut. Even in that remote location, the blast that rocked Lebanon’s capital on 4th August could be felt, like an earthquake. Sister Marie Justine immediately drove to the Socio-Medical Intercommunity Dispensary, where she serves as director, in... Read More

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February 25, 2020

Pope recognises miracle in sainthood cause of young tech whiz

Pope Francis has formally recognised a miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old London-born Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model for young men and women today. In a meeting on 22nd February with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the pope advanced... Read More

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September 13, 2019

Grandpa’s Lourdes miracle to be tested on Songs of Praise

A British grandfather who believes his inoperable cancer was cured by Lourdes holy water over 50 years ago will be tested by doctors on this weekend’s Songs of Praise. The Virgin Mary is said to have urged St Bernadette of Lourdes to drink and bathe in water from a spring in the Grotto of Massabielle.... Read More

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May 9, 2019

Catholic minorities can still change the world, pope says at audience

Visiting the small Catholic communities in Bulgaria and North Macedonia offered an opportunity to encourage the faithful to remember God’s miracle of being able to feed a multitude with just a few loaves and fishes, Pope Francis said. He said the trip also gave him a chance to strengthen Christian unity with the Orthodox Church... Read More

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February 13, 2019

Pope Francis approves canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman

Pope Francis has signed a decree recognising a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed John Henry Newman, the English cardinal, clearing the way for his canonisation. The Vatican announced today (Wednesday) that Pope Francis had signed the decree the day before. In the sainthood cause of Blessed Newman, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth had... Read More

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December 17, 2018

Reader’s Digest calls Ukrainian Catholic church a ‘real-life’ miracle

‘The church that wouldn’t burn,’ reads a headline on the cover of the December 2018/January 2019 issue of Reader’s Digest magazine. It’s the lead-in to a cover story on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Centralia. It is in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and was designated a site... Read More

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November 29, 2018

Archbishop of Birmingham says miracle could make Newman a saint

Catholic bishops have expressed hope that Pope Francis will canonise Blessed John Henry Newman in 2019 after Vatican medics said the inexplicable healing of a U.S. mother was a miracle attributable to his intercession. The cardinal was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI in Birmingham, England, after the miraculous healing of Boston Deacon Jack... Read More

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February 13, 2018

Nun’s recovery recognised as 70th official miraculous healing at Lourdes

As the Catholic Church celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, a French bishop announced the 70th officially recognised miraculous cure of a pilgrim to the Lourdes grotto where Mary appeared 160 years ago. Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonnin of Beauvais formally declared on 11th February “the prodigious, miraculous character” of the healing of Sr Bernadette... Read More

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March 24, 2017

Pope recognises miracle attributed to Fatima visionaries

Pope Francis has approved the recognition of a miracle attributed to the intercession of two of the shepherd children who saw Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, thus paving the way for their canonisation. Pope Francis signed the decree for the causes of Blesseds Francisco and Jacinta Marto during a meeting with Cardinal Angelo Amato,... Read More

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