Saintly Science: When Doctors and Doubters Are Called Upon to Prove Miracles

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By Charles Lewis

Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, a hematologist, lapsed Anglican and firm atheist, was desperate for work in the mid-1980s when she took on a small contract in Ottawa to interpret a set of laboratory slides for a colleague and write a report.

She was given no information about the patient and assumed her report would be used in a malpractice lawsuit, which is common for that kind of blind medical analysis.

Instead, her findings and subsequent oral testimony became the last piece of “evidence” of a miracle in the 200-year cause for canonization of Marie-Marguerite d’Youville, the first Canadian to be made a saint.

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“I don’t believe in miracles in the Catholic sense. I don’t believe in saints or intercession. I was blunt in saying that to the tribunals. But I said that I’m enough of a humanist and a scientist to feel that miraculous things happen beyond my understanding.”

Atheists believe in miracles? Hmmm. I hadn’t heard that before. I’ve heard of Hindu “miracles” before (for example) but such miraculous occurances wouldn’t be recognized by the Catholic Church since it takes more than a miracle to be recognized as a saint. The person also would have had to have shown their faith in their lives as well.
 
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