The sanctuary of Lourdes has announced its 69th official miracle — the curing of an Italian woman following her visit to the baths at the Marian shrine in 1989. Danila Castelli, a wife and mother, had experienced a spontaneous and severe blood pressure hypertensive crisis, as well as other serious health problems for which she Read more
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John Paul II and John XXIII may be canonised together
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
Pope Francis has approved the canonisations of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII— in the latter case waiving the requirement for a second miracle. Papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said both canonisations could take place before the end of this year, and Vatican journalists are speculating that both pontiffs could be declared saints at Read more
John Paul II could be canonised this year
Friday, April 26th, 2013A committee of doctors has confirmed that there is no medical explanation for a second healing attributed to the intercession of Blessed John Paul II. The alleged miracle now requires the approval of theologians and then the cardinals and bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, before being submitted to Pope Francis for Read more
Reported miracle moves John Paul II closer to sainthood
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013Blessed Pope John Paul II is a step closer to being declared a saint with evidence of a second reported miracle being investigated by a commission of medical experts. John Paul II was beatified in 2011 after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints accepted evidence of the healing of a French nun, Sister Simon Read more
Beatification of Pope Paul VI gets approval
Friday, December 21st, 2012The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has approved the beatification of Pope Paul VI, the pope who led the Church through most of the Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar period, and who wrote the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Two steps are necessary before a date for his beatification is announced — a decree from Read more
Church modifies healing billboard
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012The words ‘Jesus heals cancer’ have been removed from a billboard erected by a New Zealand church.
The church removed the words from the billboard on Wednesday, replacing them with a quote from the Bible: ‘Jesus heals every sickness and every disease – Matthew 4:23’.
Read the article...Second miracle attributed to JPII
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012A second miracle attributed to the late pope John Paul II has been reported and he could be made a saint soon.
The miraculous healing was reported in Italy’s Panorama weekly yesterday, citing documents sent to the Vatican.
It occurred just weeks after John Paul II’s grandiose beatification on May 1 last year, which put him on the path to sainthood just six years after his death and was attended by over a million people.
The second miracle, about which no details were reported, was chosen from among four reported miracles and documented by the promoter of Karol Wojtyla’s canonisation, Bishop Slowomir Oder, Panorama said.
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Evidence of alleged miracle with Sheen links heads to Rome
Friday, December 16th, 2011Boxes wrapped in ribbon and a happy little boy are Christmas images, but the combination had another joyful meaning Dec. 11 during ceremonies closing the Diocese of Peoria’s inquiry into an alleged miraculous healing through the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
“May God, who has begun this great work, bring it to fulfillment,” said Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, after affixing a wax seal on a box containing evidence gathered in the past three months by an investigative tribunal. The assembly gathered for the special Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral responded with sustained applause.
That evidence is now on its way to Rome for consideration by the Congregation for the Causes for Saints. The congregation is studying the beatification and sainthood cause of Archbishop Sheen, a central Illinois native and priest of the Peoria diocese who became an internationally known evangelist, radio/TV personality, writer and missionary.
Read the article...Stillborn’s revival attributed to intercession of Archbishop Sheen
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
James Fulton Engstrom was considered stillborn one year ago after his mother’s healthy pregnancy and “a beautiful, short labor.” James was without a pulse for the first 61 minutes of his life. It was only when doctors at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria were ready to call the time of death that his Read more
Miracle attributed to war-time Pope, Pius XII
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Cured after a single, six-week cycle of chemotherapy – a recovery that, Maria Esposito says, stunned her doctors and convinced her that the World War II-era pope had intervened with God to save her. Church officials’ however remain skeptical. Maria Esposito was ready to give up. Wasted away at 42 kilos, she couldn’t bear another Read more