Are these genuine miracles or delusional?

[Elena321]

This girl (in the link) claims she has healed people through prayer.
Im wondering whats the Catholic view on this?
I know priests should/can pray “over” people and that people pray for others in Church but should non priests directly “lay on of hands”?

au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/31199970/thank-you-jesus-gold-coast-model-healed-elderly-african-woman-through-prayer/

Are these reoccurances real miracles due to her having strong faith or are they instead well-meaning but misguided people with delusions of grandeur unwittingly exploiting vulnerable people?

I attended some non-denom type “healing events” when younger and they always offered people false hope but the only things I ever saw “healed” were illnesses that were naturally “waxing and waning” in character or that could have a stress/emotional component such as back pain,headaches,rheumatism etc but never things such as paraplegia or Dementia…

Maybe this girl is telling her story publicly to glorify God but a part of me is sceptical that perhaps her motive is fame or perhaps shes just kind but delusional…
When you publicly make claims such as this you open yourself up to scrutiny.

 

[Myst]

That’s not really up to us to decide. I am a lay person and have seen/done miracles through prayer and the laying-on of hands. At the same time, opening up to spiritual forces is incredibly dangerous and just stupid if you don’t have a solid priest and prayer life to back you up. The indelible mark a Christian receives at Baptism allows us to bless by the laying-on of hands, but it’s nowhere near as powerful as blessings of those marked by ordination.

So is she right or wrong? Who knows. That will be seen by the fruits of her actions. If she is messing around with “spirits” who aren’t Christ, she’s going to have a really bad time later on.

 

[mikekle]

There was a thread on this awhile back, I think the consensus came to agree that prayer does work and healings do occur, but 99.9% of the time, only very minor things are healed, usually something that can be healed on its own, or hard to determine the reason why it healed, not like cancer, restoring an amputated limb, etc.

Ive never once seen such a healing done thru prayer alone, if anyone knows of any though, please tell me about them…like where it could be confirmed by doctors, the person did indeed have cancer, but after prayer or a faith healing, no trace of cancer was found, or someone known to be missing an arm/leg, and after a faith healing, they did have the arm or leg.

I do believe this is possible, and they may occur, but I dont think they are widely publicized.

 

[mattp0625]

This girl (in the link) claims she has healed people through prayer.
Im wondering whats the Catholic view on this?
I know priests should/can pray “over” people and that people pray for others in Church but should non priests directly “lay on of hands”?

au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/31199970/thank-you-jesus-gold-coast-model-healed-elderly-african-woman-through-prayer/

Are these reoccurances real miracles due to her having strong faith or are they instead well-meaning but misguided people with delusions of grandeur unwittingly exploiting vulnerable people?

I attended some non-denom type “healing events” when younger and they always offered people false hope but the only things I ever saw “healed” were illnesses that were naturally “waxing and waning” in character or that could have a stress/emotional component such as back pain,headaches,rheumatism etc but never things such as paraplegia or Dementia…

Maybe this girl is telling her story publicly to glorify God but a part of me is sceptical that perhaps her motive is fame or perhaps shes just kind but delusional…
When you publicly make claims such as this you open yourself up to scrutiny.

This is tricky territory. I have been to similar Catholic events. I actually experienced something I could not explain a few times with lay person groups (e.g. such as charismatic groups).

However, how do we know we are dealing with God’s power when it’s lay people?
What if it’s the other one?

The Church generally seems to downplay charismatic groups, but not in all cases.

In that light, I lean toward prayer/blessing events that include priests. I trust the backing of the RCC (e.g. ordained priests).

If you’re looking for more content, I liked Miracles Do Happen by Sister Breige McKenna.

I also look for historical healing events that are ratified by the Church as valid (e.g. as with saints such as Faustina or Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio- shown below).

catholicnewsagency.com/news/one-familys-unimaginable-suffering-paves-the-way-for-a-teens-sainthood-61117/