God Awaits Us in the Mundanely Miraculous
Our world offers some pretty strong evidence of the miraculous and of God’s activity and proximity. When we take these things for granted, we often become blind to our maker and His activities. The...
View ArticlePaper Boats Filled With Violets: A Story of Mother Cabrini
Somewhere in northern Italy, a frail little girl crouches by the side of a canal. She is dropping little boats made of paper in the swiftly flowing water, and nestled in each boat there is a violet....
View ArticleWhat I Learned by Caring for Holy Relics
A little over four years ago a friend of mine called enlisting my help with an unlikely and unexpected project. Her parish priest had just died and she was the executor of his estate. Upon his...
View ArticleThe Saints Who Levitated: Extraordinary and Concrete Miracles
Carl Sagan once said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Levitation is an extraordinary claim, to be sure. It is also a claim that is very concrete: it is something anyone can...
View ArticleWhat St. Joseph’s Miraculous Staircase Teaches Me About Evangelization
With all the turmoil of the last year, it is easy and understandable that many have forgotten that we are in the Year of St. Joseph. Pope Francis gave us this gift of a special year dedicated to a...
View ArticleThe Miracle of Incorruptibility Points to Eternity
The Incorruptibles In 1977, Joan Carroll Cruz wrote a thoroughly researched book on the incorruptible saints called The Incorruptibles. Before this, there had been no thorough treatment of the topic,...
View ArticleGod Reveals Himself Through Miracles
The veil is thin when God manifests Himself in various periods of history through miracles. They are extraordinary events that show in time and space God’s power and glory, disclosures that build up...
View ArticleThe Ancient Eucharistic Miracle at Lanciano
An Ancient Miracle Lanciano hosts one of the most ancient eucharistic miracles whose relics are still preserved. It is so ancient that a precise historical documentation regarding the original event...
View ArticleThe Miraculous Staircase of Loretto: Trust in Our Lady & St. Joseph
Last year marked 140 years since the completion of the most famous staircase in our nation. It’s in the chapel of Our Lady of Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I hope that you know the story. In the...
View ArticleTwo Miraculous Apparitions of St. Michael
The Catholic Church has a long tradition of apparitions, those moments when the supernatural breaks into the everyday world to communicate a message or to offer assistance. Of course, Mary is rightly...
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