Asked by the Northern Advocate if they knew the gender of their triplets, the couple said they did not want to know.

The identical triplets' gender remained a surprise until they were born.

"We just really wanted to focus on them being healthy. We feel that God has chosen these three babies for our family to love and care for" Anna said.

"We couldn't manage this journey without the incredible support from our family, friends, church and the Northland Multiples [multiple births group]. We are profoundly grateful to them and God for His many blessings" Jeremy said.

The Pyles are also grateful to Whangarei hospital, where the triplets were born by caesarean section on 29 July and where they were cared for until they were ready to come home.

The identical girls - Sophia, Adeline and Gabriella - will join Eliane aged 6, James 4, Georgia 3 and Olivia coming up 2.

Home expansion

The couple said they will have to expand their home to accommodate Sophia, Adeline and Gabriella and are looking forward to lots of family laughter and perhaps an occasional sibling disagreement.

As well as their house being their home, it will also be their school.

Anna and Jeremy told the Northern Advocate that while they have plenty of support from family to ensure a whole village would help raise the children, to avoid the constant expense of school uniforms for seven the children would be homeschooled.

Natural conception

US baby and pregnancy site The Bump says while the probability of conceiving triplets naturally is around one in every 10,000 pregnancies, the odds of those triplets being identical is at least one-in-a-million.

The Pyle's are convinced theirs are "little miracles".

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• NZ Herald

Antonia Salzano told iNews that Acutis did not inherit his religious instincts from her or her husband.

"I was not an example of saintliness as a child - quite the opposite. When I got married it was the third mass I'd ever attended."

"I was evangelised by Carlo," she said.

The blessed boy

Salzano says he loved watching football and playing video games. And while he helped Milan's poor and needy, and built numerous websites for spreading religious teachings, her son always prioritised his faith.

She has also had first-hand experience of her son's miracles, she says.

One night, after several unsuccessful attempts to have another child, Salzano says her son appeared to her in a dream, telling her that she would become a mother again.

On the anniversary of Blessed Carolo's death in 2010, his 44-year old mother gave birth to twin daughters.

Life is eternal

Salzano says her son helped people concentrate on the transitory nature of life.

He noticed many struggling to understand that life is eternal.

"He said that death was the passage to real life and whoever is scared of death doesn't have faith."

Nor did he want to focus on his own illness and suffering.

"When the doctors asked him whether he was suffering, he said: ‘there are people in this world that suffer more than me'."

The young saint's example

Blessed Carlos's faith was obvious from an early age, his mother says.

He began attending daily Mass from the age of seven.

He limited himself to using his Playstation though to one hour a week as a form of spiritual discipline.

He loved visiting homeless people, to whom he gave his pocket money and donated food or sleeping bags.

He also designed websites for his parish and school, and a site cataloguing Eucharistic miracles from around the world.

That website is translated into nearly 20 languages.

After he died, a Vatican-sponsored photo exhibition on miracles drawn from his website traveled the world.

On 1 July 2024, Pope Francis presided at an Ordinary Consistory of Cardinals, which approved his canonisation.

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• inews

Such was the scenario one year ago, on May 14, for Jessica Dahlberg of Epiphany in Coon Rapids.

Her son, Joshua, had been hospitalised after a fall while playing soccer five days previously. An MRI at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis on May 13 revealed he had transverse myelitis, which, in his case, caused paralysis from the waist down.

Doctors told her there was only a 10 percent chance Joshua would ever walk again.

Jessica, her husband, Andy, both 35, and their other five children were trying to process this radical new reality, which would mean Joshua using a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

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After reports of the incident surfaced, hundreds of curious believers and sceptics flocked to witness the event.

Video footage shared on social media showed what appeared to be small, transparent drops falling from the eyes and down her face.

Some people associate the phenomenon with the violence rates that are being experienced in the state of Colima. As of October of this year, 702 confirmed intentional homicides had been recorded by the Colima Prosecutor's Office. Read more

"We have just taken from the safe the reliquary with the blood of our patron saint, which immediately completely liquefied," the abbot of the chapel of the treasury of the Naples Cathedral announced on Sept 19.

The declaration that the miracle had again taken place was made at the start of Mass by Abbot Vincenzo De Gregorio.

The archbishop of Naples, Domenico Battaglia, held the relic of the blood, moving the glass ampoules to demonstrate the liquid state of the blood to the sounds of strong applause. At the same time, the deputy of the wisdom of the people waved a white cloth.

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Now they will get a closer look - but on a worldwide scale.

The Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, or PAMI, recently announced an "observatory" to investigate claims of appearances of the Virgin Mary and reports of statues of her weeping oil and blood.

This announcement extends PAMI's mission of promoting devotion to Mary and studying phenomena related to her.

While waiting for full Vatican approval, the observatory will train investigators to study mystical phenomena in cooperation with church authorities - for example, trying to determine the substance of reported tears.

Investigating the supernatural has always been a delicate task in the Catholic Church, which has to balance the faith of believers with the possibility of fraud.

Marian apparitions

Catholics believe Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ and the mother of God, who still makes her presence known. And the Catholic Church has officially recognised several sites where Mary has reportedly appeared around the globe.

The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on a cloak in Mexico City has long been revered by Catholics as a miracle confirming Mary's appearance to the peasant Juan Diego in 1531.

In Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, three children claimed that the Virgin Mary had visited them several times. Crowds drawn by the children's prophecy that Mary would reappear and perform a miracle reported seeing the sun "dance in the sky."

The most recent Marian apparition that a Catholic bishop has declared "worthy of belief" was in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, in 2016.

A local Catholic woman told her priest that visions had begun with rosary prayer beads glowing in multiple homes and progressed to Mary warning her of humanity's "self-destruction."

Mary's tears

There is also a long history of claims of weeping Mary statues.

A well-known example is the Madonna of Syracuse, Sicily - a plaster statue that seemed to shed tears. Investigators appointed by the church said the liquid was chemically similar to human tears.

The shrine now housing the image is shaped like a teardrop.

Recently, weeping statues have been reported in places as distant from each other as Paszto, Hungary, and Hobbs, New Mexico.

It is, however, rare for the Catholic Church to say that an apparently weeping statue has a supernatural cause.

Mary's tears have special significance for Catholics. She is often pictured as crying over the sins of the world and the pain she endured in her earthly life. Mary's earthly sorrows are depicted by seven swords piercing her flaming heart.

Given Mary's religious and symbolic significance, it is not surprising for a supposed apparition site or a weeping statue to become an object of devotion.

And when this happens, the local bishop sometimes decides to investigate.

The possibility of fraud

In examining claims of the supernatural, bishops follow standards set by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees Catholic doctrine.

Perhaps because they address controversial issues, the standards were only made public in 2012 - nearly 35 years after implementation.

The bishop, or a committee he appointed, evaluates the alleged supernatural phenomenon.

This involves interviewing witnesses and, sometimes, scientific tests. Impact on the community is also considered.

Positive aspects include reports of physical healings, religious conversions, or a general deepening of faith among Catholics.

Negative aspects include selling oil from a purportedly weeping statue or claiming a message from Mary that goes against Catholic doctrine.

A well-known case of an apparition that the Catholic Church rejected concerns the visions of Veronica Lueken, the Brooklyn "Bayside Seer," who died in 1995.

Lueken reported a number of messages from Mary that concerned church authorities.

For example, Lueken claimed in 1972 that Mary had told her that the pope was an imposter made to look like the true pope, Paul VI, through plastic surgery.

Although belief in the messages endures among a few Catholics, the local bishop deemed the apparitions not credible.

When it comes to weeping statues, one of the primary questions is whether the event has been staged.

For example, in two cases of statues that supposedly had wept blood - one in Canada in 1986 and another in Italy in 2006 - the blood turned out to be that of the statue's owner.

Liquids can also be injected into the porous material of statues and later seep out as "tears."

Oil mixed with fat can be applied to a statue's eyes, which will "weep" when ambient temperatures rise.

Searching for meaning

The Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis seems to be searching for proof of supernatural signs, drawing intellectual curiosity and media attention.

But as a scholar of global Catholicism who has written about claims of the supernatural, I think it's also important to understand what brings people to an apparition site or weeping statue in the first place.

In my hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, statues and pictures have appeared to weep oil and blood at the home of the late Audrey Santo, who died in 2007 at 23.

"Little Audrey" was left mute and paralyzed as a child after a swimming pool accident.

Despite her physical condition, pilgrims who came to see her believed she was praying for them.

After Santo's death, a foundation was established to promote her cause for sainthood, believing that the statues and pictures in her home were signs that God has specially blessed her.

In my writings about the case of Santo, I was tempted to focus on talk of the supernatural. And the claims surrounding Little Audrey are still debated among Catholics as her sainthood cause stalls.

But what I found most interesting was listening to people share why weeping statues were so meaningful in their personal lives.

At the Santo home, the people I talked to shared personal stories of pain, sadness, hope, and healing.

Ultimately, the sense of togetherness in and through suffering was far more important than talk of scientific proofs of the supernatural.

• Mathew Schmalz is an author at Religion News Service.
• First published in RNS in 1998. Updated and republished with permission.

Naples archdiocese announced that the miraculous event took place at 5:18 p.m. local time on May 2.

A video posted to YouTube on May 3 showed a monsignor displaying the reliquary and turning it to demonstrate that the blood inside a spherical ampoule had turned from a solid to a liquid state.

During the miracle, the dried, red-coloured mass confined to one side of the reliquary becomes blood covering the entire glass.

In local lore, the failure of the blood to liquefy signals war, famine, disease, or another disaster.

The liquefaction usually occurs annually on the afternoon of the first Saturday in May. But this year, it happened on the second day of prayer in honour of the third-century bishop of Naples.

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Venerable Carlo Acutis
The teenager, computer geek and leukemia victim will be beatified. The Medical Council of the Congregation for Saints' Causes has approved a miracle attributed to the Venerable Carlo, who died in 2006.

The miracle involved a Brazilian child who was healed from a rare congenital anatomic anomaly of the pancreas in 2013.

The Italian teen's beatification is expected to take place in Assisi, which is where Acutis is buried.

Acutis, who was 15 when he died, offered his suffering for the pope and for the Church.

Last May, his mother, Antonia Salzano, said "Jesus was the center of his day."

He attended daily Mass, frequently prayed the rosary, and made weekly confessions.

His mother said priests and nuns would say they could tell the Lord had a special plan for her son.

"Carlo really had Jesus in his heart, really the pureness … When you are really pure of heart, you really touch people's hearts," she said.

Acutis's gift for computer technology resulted in a website which catalogued Eucharistic miracles.

This website was the genesis of The Eucharistic Miracles of the World, an international exhibition which highlights such occurrences.

Blessed Lazarus (also called Devasahayam)
A miracle has been attributed to 18th century Indian martyr Blessed Lazarus, who suffered severe persecution after converting from Hinduism to Catholicism.

Blessed Maria Francesca of Jesus
A miracle has also been attributed to the intercession of Blessed Maria Francesca of Jesus. Francesca, who died in Uruguay in 1904, was the missionary foundress of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of Loano.

Both Blessed Lazarus and Blessed Maria Francesca of Jesus can now be canonized as saints. Their canonisation dates have yet to be announced.

Fr Rutilio Grande García and two lay companions
The Vatican has recognized the martyrdom of a Jesuit priest, Fr. Rutilio Grande García, and his two lay companions, who were killed in El Salvador. Grande, a close friend of St. Oscar Romero, was shot by a right-wing death squad while travelling in a car on March 12, 1977.

Servants of God
The heroic virtues of Servant of God Mario Hiriart Pulido, a Chilean engineer and lay member of the Secular Institute for the Schoenstatt Brothers of Mary who died in Wisconsin in 1964, have been recognised.

So have the heroic virtues of three Italian priests: Fr. Emilio Venturini, Fr. Pirro Scavizzi, and Fr. Emilio Recchia.

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• Catholic News Agency
• Image: Patheos

The ceremony will take place at the end of the Synod of Bishops on youth and discernment, Cardinal Pietro Parolin says.

The cardinals and bishops who are members of the Congregation for Saints' Causes have voted to recognise a miracle where Blessed Paul healed an unborn baby and helped her reach full term.

The baby's mother, who was told she had a very high risk of miscarrying the baby, had prayed for Blessed Paul's intercession a few days after his beatification by Pope Francis in 2014.

Blessed Paul was pope from 1963 to 1978.

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has also publicised the martyrdom, miracles and heroic virtues of a number of others.

They include:

• a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, Archbishop of San Salvador, martyred on 24 March 1980;
• a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Francesco Spinelli, Diocesan priest, founder of the Institute of the Sister Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament, who died on 6 February 1913;
• a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Vincenzo Romani, Diocesan priest, who died on 20 December 1831;
• a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Maria Catherine Kasper, foundress of the Institute of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ who died on 2 February 1898;
• a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God María Felicia Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, Professed Sister of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, who died on 28 April 1959;
• the martyrdom of the Servant of God Anna Kolesárová, Laywoman, killed in hatred of the Faith on 22 November 1944;
• the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Bernard Łubieński, professed priest of the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer, who died on 10 September 1933;
• the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Cecilio Maria Cortinovis, professed religious of the Order of Friars Minor, Capuchin, who died on 10 April 1984;
• the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Giustina Schiapparoli, foundress of the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Divine Providence of Voghera, who died on 30 November 1877;
• the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Schiapparoli, foundress of the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Divine Providence of Voghera, who died on 2 May 1882;
• the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Maria Antonella Bordoni, laywoman of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, foundress of the Lay Fraternity of the Little Daughters of the Mother of God, who died on 16 January 1978;
• the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Alessandra Sabattini, layman, who died on 2 May 1984.

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• Vatican News
• The Tablet
• Catholic Herald UK
• Image: EpicPew

A first miracle would see her named as "Blessed", and a second would mean her being named a saint.

The sisters of Compassion property in Island Bay has been developed in the expectation of attracting thousands of visitors to Wellington.

When Suzanne Aubert died in 1926, she was buried at Karori cemetery in Wellington.

She was moved to Our Lady's Home of Compassion in 1950 and placed in a grave at the foot of a Pietà.

In 1984, both the grave and the statue were transferred to different sites on the grounds after the buildings at Island Bay were replaced.

Earlier this year Aubert was moved to a newly prepared crypt with the Pietà just outside the main window.

The recognition of a miracle requires reports, citations of witnesses, a biography, medical records and medical studies of people cured.

Last week, Sisters of Compassion archivist Josephine Gorman said she could not elaborate on the cures performed by Aubert in 1940s that were considered potential miracles at the time, as the privacy of those people was important.

The sisters would have to collect medical evidence to ensure there had been no medical intervention required, she said.

If doctors in New Zealand found there was no medical explanation, it would be sent to Rome for Vatican doctors to find out if the alleged cure was a miracle.

A spokeswoman for the New Zealand Catholic Church said more than one doctor was required to verify and provide proof of a miracle cure.

"Proof of a cure must be evidenced by medical records, professional diagnoses of medical doctors and their testimony, x-rays, pathological reports, CAT scans etc," she said.

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• Stuff
• Stuff
• Suzanne Aubert
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Contrary to a common prejudice, a scientific perspective does not rule out miracles, and the event at Fatima is, in the view of many, particularly credible.

As regards miracles in general, the usual prejudice against them takes one of two forms. The first is to claim that a scientific worldview excludes miracles, wrongly defined as breaking the laws of nature or, specifically, physics.

This prejudice rests on a misunderstanding of the scope of scientific laws, which describe how simple, idealised systems behave in isolation.

Such laws enable us to perform extraordinary feats, such as the final voyage of the Cassini spacecraft now taking place through the rings of Saturn.

But such laws say nothing about what happens when a system is not isolated, especially when a free personal agent intervenes.

To give an example, if I throw an apple in the air, its trajectory will approximate a parabola that can be predicted from its initial position and momentum, but that prediction says nothing about whether or not I choose to catch the apple.

And if I can intervene to change the trajectory of an apple then presumably God, who is all-powerful, can do the same and much more.

Hence there is no real problem with miracles from the perspective of scientific laws, since to describe how a system behaves in the absence of intervention says nothing about whether an intervention can or does take place.

A second form of the prejudice is to claim that a combination of natural causes can and should be found to explain what appears to be miraculous, reducing the miraculous to the providential.

To give one of many examples, it is not uncommon for clerics and teachers of a certain age, who find the miraculous mildly embarrassing, to claim that Jesus's feeding of the 5,000 was simply a matter of people being shamed into sharing the food they already had. Continue reading

• Fr Andrew Pinsent is research director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford University and a priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton

A Ministry of Primary Industries' spokesperson, Craig Hughes, said close to 500 people had been intercepted at airports and other borders trying to bring the water in, and made a lot of work for border control staff.

He said the water posed a biosecurity risk to New Zealand and anyone bringing it in would be fined $400 or prosecuted if they did not declare it.

Alternatively if they did declare it and wanted to keep it, they would have to pay $60 for heat treatment.

"Our concern isn't whether the healing properties are real or not, but whether it contains waterborne diseases that could harm New Zealand's freshwater aquaculture and natural environment," said Hughes.

He said passengers tried to bring untreated water in from various parts of the world.

"We have seen live mosquito larvae in some bottles. It highlights the risk of water coming into the country."

Heat treatment was an option but was not a quick process. The water had to be sent to a proper treatment facility.

The miracle water has transformed the village of Natadradave, two hours' drive from Suva. In just two months at the end of last year, about 62,000 people visited the village.

They have gone to the village after hearing stories that the waters of a natural spring heal everything from conjunctivitis to blindness.

Although the jury is out on the efficacy of the water, its popularity has resulted in a better road into the village, as well as a big market for local produce.

No one is making any money from the water. The only request from locals is it's never sold as it would lose its mana.

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• newshub.co.nz
• nzfarmer.co.nz
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There is however no scientific expert or medical data is available to back or rebut these claims.

A caller from Luganville, told the Vanuatu Daily Post around 200 to 300 people come to the stream every day since its discovery.

Some people drink the water. Others bathe in it further downstream.

People fill containers at the source to take home to families or even send it to relatives in other islands.

"The miraculous healing water is unbelievable," the caller claimed.

"It works and people flock to the spring water by the sea shore just outside Luganville daily to get to the water."

"Since its discovery, people with all sorts of diseases such as skin diseases, those who can't walk, blind, deaf and internal problems have been bathing and drinking the water from the spring source that spreads along the foreshore," the caller said.

A similar claim about a stream was made in Fiji over a year ago that attracted thousands of people with various diseases and disabilities that flocked to and still going to a water source.

Some ni-Vanuatu travelled to Fiji to visit this stream and brought it back to Vanuatu in bottles.

"Here on Santo, there is no charge to come to the spring healing water because it is a free gift from God," the Luganville caller claimed.

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• dailypost.vu
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In Fiji hundreds of people have been flocking to the village in Dawasamu, Tailevu to be bathed under water that is said to contain miraculous healing qualities.

Visitors have claimed the water has cured skin and eye infections.

"A village elder known only as Laulaba told me they first discovered water's healing power around February 2016 when a young boy with hernia was healed by bathing in water." said the Archbishop.

"How do we explain the Natadradave healing water? Is it miraculous?" he asked.

"From a church and theological perspective the question may be framed as: What is God saying and doing through the Natadradave healing water? How can we co-operate with God's plan?"

Loy Chong used his visit to village as an opportunity provide a theological reflection on the Natadradave healing water in the Fiji Times.

He went on to broaden the reflection and to talk about how water features in the bible and to explain the church's teaching about water.

"The Natadradave healing water emerged in a critical era of Fijian history. We have just experienced the destructive forces of category 5 Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston. Winston showed clearly the impacts of climate change."

"The Catholic Church in Fiji has now been awakened to the need to address disaster management and environmental issues."

"Pope Francis in Laudato Si challenges all peoples to hear both the cries of the poor and the earth. He says we must address both social and ecological justice. Climate change has now become an international concern."

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• abc.net.au
• fijitimes.com
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Some dispute the number, but there was certainly a very large crowd. Look at photograph of the crowd.

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But are there times when too much control can be ceded to God?

When it comes to health, the answer in many cases may be yes.

Placing too much control in divine hands may lessen efforts to seek treatment or take preventive measures such as quitting smoking or following a healthy diet, according to a new study.

Men and women who said they believed in divine healing were more likely to let God decide how to solve their health problems, a study led by University of Michigan researcher R. David Hayward found.

And people who were more likely to place responsibility for their health care in divine hands reported worse health outcomes.

Divine deferral still can be a beneficial approach in the cases of dying individuals when medical intervention can no longer help, researchers noted. Placing faith in a benevolent God to be at their side in their last days can help ease their anxiety and suffering.

Until they reach that stage, however, the study suggests that religious people may find it more beneficial to work together with God by doing their best to find the correct treatment for illnesses and living a healthy life.

It is finding the right balance between divine control and personal control that can be the tricky part.

More than four in five Americans say God often performs miracles. Nearly half of Americans say they have experienced a supernatural miracle.

And for many religious people, particularly blacks and evangelicals, there is a greater likelihood of ceding personal control of health issues to God.

In a University of Chicago study of urban cancer patients, 61 percent of black participants said God was in control of their cancer; just 29 percent of whites agreed with the statement. Continue reading

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• Stuff / The Washington Post article by David Briggs
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Pope Francis has approved revised norms to ensure transparency.

Historical and scientific accuracy are also important factors.

The Congregation of Saints Causes must have at least six medical experts on a Consultation Team panel.

Two-thirds of the team must approve a statement declaring a healing has no natural or scientific explanation.

In the past the declaration had to be approved by a majority of the consultation team members.

The team's approval was a key step before the Pope could recognise a miracle.

He could then attribute it to the intercession of a candidate for sainthood.

"The ... regulation is for the good of the (saints') causes, which can never be separated from the historical and scientific truth of the alleged miracles," Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, secretary of the congregation, said

Bartolucci led a seven-member commission that began revising the regulations last year.

The aim was to update the norms established by St. John Paul II in 1983.

Apart from martyrs, two miracles are usually needed for a person to be declared a saint.

One is for beatification and the second for canonization.

The new regulations also change the number of times an alleged miracle can be examined.

They now say it "cannot be re-examined more than three times."

A Medical Consultation team with up to seven experts examines the miracles.

If the promoter of a cause appeals a negative judgment, a new Medical Consultation team is appointed.

The Consultation team members must be are unknown to the postulator.

The promotor of the specific cause is the postulator.

A presumed miracle is first reviewed by two medical experts within the congregation.

Then with their recommendation it is then sent to the Medical Consultation team.

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• Catholic Register
• Image:www.godisreal.today

Hundreds of Catholics have been declared saints in recent decades, but few with the acclaim accorded Mother Teresa, set to be canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday, largely in recognition of her service to the poor in India.

"When I was coming of age, she was the living saint," says the Most Rev. Robert Barron, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

"If you were saying, 'Who is someone today that would really embody the Christian life?' you would turn to Mother Teresa of Calcutta." Read more

When Tamaha MacDonald and his wife Jennifer Lougee Mingramm returned home from the hospital after Lougee Mingramm suffered a stroke, they started looking through a pile of X-rays taken during her treatment.

The pair, who live in Mexico City, spotted an unusual image in an X-ray of Lougee Mingramm's brain.

Although their doctor did not spot the resemblance, MacDonald, Lougee Mingramm and her family were convinced that an image at the centre of the scan depicted Jesus Christ. Continue reading

"Honestly, I think this one of the most supernatural things I have ever experienced in my life," Father Manuel Dorantes told CNA May 29.

A priest of the diocese of Chicago and Spanish assistant to the director of the Holy See press office, Fr. Dorantes was present in San Salvador for the May 23 beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero. Continue reading