Catholics: Opinions on modern miracles?

[Sneaux]

First, I want to apologize if this isn’t the right place to post this, but I wanted to know the opinions of other Catholics on modern miracles such as the Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires and the weeping and bleeding statue in Bolivia. I don’t know if I can call them exactly miracles, because I don’t think the Church recognizes them as official miracles(??)

I hadn’t heard about either one until last night, I saw someone mention Buenos Aires on here, and I did a search and read the story. They said the heart belongs to the same person as the Eucharistic Miracle in Lanciano, saying that it was a Middle Eastern man with AB+ blood. When I did some more digging, I learned there were a lot of skeptics, saying it was a hoax, and there were “debunks” I didn’t watch or read any debunks though. At first I completely believed it, then the skeptics, made me get a little skeptical. How accurate and trustworthy are these miracles?

Then I watched a video, I’ll give the link, called “Science Tests Faith” talking about the Weeping and Bleeding statue in Bolivia…

youtube.com/watch?v=vz9L2EYjjsc

 

[adawgj]

I’m not exactly one who believes in many miracles. But if these miracles are here to help others increase their faith then so be it.

 

[Jared2914]

I generally believe in them, but I don’t get caught up in it. My faith doesn’t depend on miracles. Also, I consider many more things miracles than the media covers. I believe there are little miracles every day in my life. The closer I get to God, the more I am able to recognize these hidden miracles.

 

[KD8TZC]

I generally believe in them, but I don’t get caught up in it. My faith doesn’t depend on miracles. Also, I consider many more things miracles than the media covers. I believe there are little miracles every day in my life. The closer I get to God, the more I am able to recognize these hidden miracles.

Boy, isn’t that the truth. We are sometimes so busy looking for the next big thing, that we forget the beauty of the simple miracles that happen everyday. Maybe these are just so common that we expect them, but we need to stop and listen and look from time to time to see the beauty of all the miracles, big and small, that are happening each and everyday.

 

[Peregrinans]

I saw that video before and I was amazed by it and wondered why I had never heard of it either as a miraculous claim, or as a story that was debunked. So, I don’t know whether or not the claims are authentic. I am skeptical by nature so, unless I research something and find convincing evidence, one way or the other, I am usually a fence sitter, who leans towards not believing. (The Shroud of Turin is one that I do believe is genuine. ) I also have no doubt that God can, and does, perform miracles everyday all over the world. Just what those miracles are and how they are manifested are a mystery. So, I would say that I try to keep and open mind, find out the truth (either that these claims are real or a scam) and not to let anything shake my faith. Anything that increases it is welcomed and cherished, but anything that might confuse, or even distort, is something I try to avoid.

 

[JackVk]

I stay skeptical, but open-minded, of modern miracles. So does the Vatican (their skepticism towards modern miracles puts Christopher Hitchens and Penn & Teller to shame). We have to “beware of false prophets” and “test everything; retain what is good”. If we invest too much in them, our faith is bound to be hurt.

We also have to remember that there are quite a few fakers and wannabes out there. You almost always here of an old lady who found a piece of toast that looks like Jesus, or a self-proclaimed “seer” whose “visions” are rehashes of Fatima.

 

[mikekle]

IMO, far too many people are too quick to debunk almost anything supernatural…yet they will believe nearly everything they are told on mainstream media?? Go figure?

Too many people want to hear what the ‘experts’ say first, They are doubting thomas’s, they want to understand the ‘hows’ of miracles…how was it possible, they want a scientific explanation, and I think it scares them too much to think things take place in our world that can have no scientific explanation, and are truly a miracle or something supernatural that we cant understand.

I would not be surprised if alot of this kind of thing takes place every day, but only a few are ever mentioned.

I really doubt many of these people will believe it when Jesus comes back…they will think it is a joke, or trick by some Govt entity, they surely wont believe it is the second coming, I would bet, even the media wont admit this when it happens, they will try their best to explain it as something else.