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NIAGARA FALLS — Throughout history there have been numerous accounts, documentation and stories of miraculous events that warm our hearts and spark our souls to the possibility of the unexplainable. Most miracles are recognized when the majority of us would have concluded that all hope is lost — although I am sure they happen more than we give them credit for. The more “rules” we have on what is or is not possible, the less likely we are to be witness of the miracles that present themselves on a regular basis. Although I have heard many stories of miraculous recoveries...

Mother Marianne Cope is elevated to sainthood after the Vatican authenticates a second miracle that was a result of her intercession — the use of her bone fragments to cure a woman with acute pancreatitis. The second Vatican-authenticated miracle leading to the sainthood of Mother Marianne Cope involves the healing of a New York woman who had an infection destroying her organs, fellow nuns have revealed for the first time. Details on the purported miracle were revealed last week by the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities in Syracuse, N.Y. A bag of soil containing Marianne's bone fragments...

Finally, one day that December, I had to tell her. Medically, we were beaten. The decision lay with God. She took it quietly, lying there, wasting away, only 23 and the mother of a year-old child. Eleanor Munro (her name has been disguised) was a devout, courageous woman. She had red hair and had probably been rather pretty, but it was hard to tell anymore, she was so near to death from tuberculosis. She knew it now, she accepted it, and she asked for just one thing. “If I’m still alive on Christmas Eve,” she said slowly, “I would like...

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Peoria, Ill., Dec 13, 2011 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Dec. 11 Mass in Peoria, Ill. marked the official conclusion of an investigation tribunal into an alleged miracle that many attribute to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.Since Sept. 7, the tribunal has looked into the alleged miraculous healing of James Fulton Engstrom – a one-year-old born without a pulse last year – whose parents credit his survival to the late archbishop.  The Mass, open to members of the public, was held at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, where...

When Redemptorist Father John Murray bashed his head against a railing after tripping along a New Jersey boardwalk 15 months ago, the consequences were devastating. The former pastor of St. Mary in Annapolis and St. Wenceslaus in Baltimore suffered a broken neck that left him instantly paralyzed from the chest down. Rushed to a hospital, he underwent emergency spinal cord surgery and later began rehabilitation at a prominent New Jersey institute. Doctors had little encouragement for the once-active priest who was known across the East Coast for his preaching abilities. The chances he would ever walk again were virtually zero....

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A classroom in a special education school in Ashdod has served as a makeshift synagogue on Sabbaths for 40 years running. Throughout those years, not one Sabbath prayer was missed. Until this last Sabbath. And that was what saved the congregants from a Gaza missile that struck the synagogue's courtyard Saturday. Netanel Mor Yosef, a member of the congregation, explained to Arutz Sheva: "The synagogue is active, but only on the Sabbath, for the past 40 years. Not a single Sabbath prayer session was ever missed until this week. Then synagogue's gabbai (treasurer-manager) underwent an operation during the week and...

E-Cat News Coming Fast and Furious The past few weeks have been very exciting for those following the saga of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat Energy Catalyzer technology and its race to the marketplace. Here is a roundup of recent events! Several dedicated coverage services are emerging. by Hank Mills Pure Energy Systems News You've heard it said, "If you snooze, you loose!" This saying seems to be especially true for those following the saga of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) technology and it's race towards commercialization. It seems like every morning upon waking, there are new developments to catch up on!...

A tapestry depicting Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai hangs inside St. Peter's Basilica during her 2005 beatification ceremony. (CNS/Reuters) By Patrick DownesCatholic News Service HONOLULU (CNS) -- The sainthood cause of Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai has taken a significant step forward with a Vatican medical board ruling in favor of a miracle attributed to her intercession. According to a news release from her religious community, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities in Syracuse, N.Y., the seven physicians at the Vatican Congregation for Saints' Causes declared there is no medical explanation for the cure of a...

We may never know how he did it. It could have involved some sort of broad scale mind control experiment. Perhaps he brought in somebody from over the border in Delaware to cast a spell on the state legislature. But in New Jersey – a state generally defined by partisan warfare between liberal Democrats and really liberal Democrats – Governor Chris Christie has met the public workers unions on the field of battle and sent them running like pigs from the gun. New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday approved a broad rollback of benefits for 750,000 government workers and retirees, the...

........Connie is a spiritual person and put the Bible verse from Psalms 121 on the bathroom mirror when Kent first moved into the house. She wanted to remind her son while he was off at college to stay close to God and to remember that God would always be there for him. "The Lord will protect you from all harm. He will protect your life. The Lord will protect your coming and going both now and forever more." "I believe those words with all my heart," Connie says. Now more than ever. ......They turned on the TV, saw the storm...

On the day of the Beatification of Pope John Paul II, the world witnessed an incredible miracle the likes of which it may never see again.

I realize God doesn't always respond with miracles, but this was a miracle healing and we praise God for it. My 41-year-old cousin was dying of liver failure April 21. Her liver was disintegrating. The doctors were treating her as terminal and said her chances of survival didn't exist short of a miracle. Her time frame for survival was hours to possibly weeks, they couldn't really say. Last Monday, April 25, my cousin had to be restrained as she tried to pull a tube out of her nose which was supplying meds to her stomach. It was too uncomfortable and...

Eight-year-old Reginald Epps Jr was picked up off his feet and pulled into the swirling darkness when one of the Alabama twisters tore through his home. As his family cowered beneath him he was carried through the air some 30ft before being set down again with just cuts and bruises. Eight-year-old Reginald Epps Jr was picked up off his feet and pulled into the swirling darkness when one of the Alabama twisters tore through his home. As his family cowered beneath him he was carried through the air some 30ft before being set down again with just cuts and bruises....

Dead for 122 years now... simply astonishing Our Lady of Lourdes CathedralLourdes, France Do keep in mind that the poor sisters of those days -along with most everybody else- were simply buried in a pine box, and not professionally embalmed as is prevalent in civilized countries today- These photos show the "incorruptible" Saint Bernadette's body on display in Lourdes, France a full 122 years past her death... it's level of preservation a miracle in itself. In this Holy woman's lifetime, Bernadette's eighteen separate visions of Mary at Lourdes -each recognized officially as a Marian apparation by The Vatican- propelled the young Maria-Bernada Sobirós towards...

The Miracle Cross of MexicoThe Miracle Cross of Poison - Mexico CityIn the year 1602, this crucifix was in a Dominican church, used by seminarians, called Porta Coeli (or Heaven's Gate).  Only the Crucifix was white marble! As it was next door to the Cathedral and used by the seminarians, it was the Archbishop's custom to celebrate Mass there daily.  It was also his custom to kiss the Feet of the Crucified Lord on the Crucifix, before beginning the ongoing Sacrifice of the Cross, the Holy Mass.  Now not everyone was happy with the conversions that had come about, especially...

Lourdes healing hailed as ‘remarkable’ The incredible recovery of a French man, who walked the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route in Spain after being cured of a paralysed left leg following a trip to Lourdes is being examined as a possible 68th miracle of the shrine Serge Francois, a TV repair worker said he felt a warm glow spread down his herniated leg during a visit to Lourdes in 2002.After having prayed at the Lourdes Grotto (above) Mr Francois reported the healing to the international Medical Committee of Lourdes (CMIL) and 20 doctors have agreed on the remarkable nature of...

John Paul II wore a white skull cap, also called a zucchetto or pileolusSpain’s bureaucratic health care system almost killed Madrid resident Carlos Vasquez, but John Paul II’s white papal cap miraculously cured him. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 28, 2011 Spain’s bureaucratic health care system almost killed Madrid resident Carlos Vazquez, a Crohn’s disease sufferer. But contact with John Paul II’s white papal cap miraculously cured him in 2006, author Randall Meissen relates in “Living Miracles: The Spiritual Sons of John Paul the Great” (Mission Network: Alpharetta, GA, 2011). John Paul will be beatified on May 1 due to a...

This is one of those days where it is worth remembering a truly amazing feat/miracle in human history. On this day in 1944, Nickolas Alkemade, an RAF Sergeant, was serving as a tail gunner on an RAF Lancaster bomber. The plane was at 18,000 feet when the Nazis hit it, setting it on fire. Alkemade decided he’d rather die instantly by impact rather than burn up as the plane rapidly descended. The rest of the crew stayed on board and died in the fiery wreckage. Nickolas Alkemade jumped out at 18,000 feet. He had no parachute. All the parachutes had...

In the South, where I am from, saying - "I will pray for you" is a common way to escape a conversation that may have gotten too personal or too intense for our liking. Often when someone shares a problem to which we have no answer that little phrase "I will pray for you" is all we have to offer. Then, unfortunately, we often say a flippant prayer in passing so that our conscious doesn't get the best of us if we forget to pray for the person and there we go our deed is done. The problem is that...

From company logos to swastikas, marriage proposals and other messages, you can find some very unique images in Google Maps. And now, according to some construction workers in England, you can also find a vision of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus.

Tsunami spares Church; Catholics aid victimsANTO AKKARA Register Correspondent VAILANKANNI, India — Like many Southeast Asian coastal areas, the Diocese of Thanjavur was hit hard by tsunamis resulting from the magnitude-9 earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean Dec. 26. As of Jan. 3, the death toll was more than 155,000 in 12 countries. But diocesan officials say they saw a miracle at the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health amid the tragedy that took more than 1,000 lives locally, including those of hundreds of pilgrims. "The killer waves surged and came up to the entrance of the main basilica where...

The M+G+R Foundation Divine Protection at Hiroshima or why out motto isIn God we trust and everyone else must prove himself firstPURPOSE The purpose of this document is to share certain dramatic events which occurred im Hiroshima that may help some see the importance of sincere prayer in order that Psalm 91(1) becomes a reality in one's life. INTRODUCTION We requested one of our frequent visitors to research the mostly ignored manifestation of the Divine protection for certain individuals in Hiroshima when the A-bomb was dropped there by the allied forces. We do not need any proof to live what...

It’s not easy being God’s chosen people. If you don’t believe me, just look at history. Israel is quite simply a one word answer to anyone who doesn’t believe that there is a God. Come with me and let’s examine one of God’s greatest miracles – the Jewish people, and their home country of Israel. I ask only one thing from you, leave your preconceived prejudices and disbeliefs behind and examine this from a purely logical standpoint. Over the past 10 years two countries have dominated the headlines in worldwide media like no other. The country most often mentioned in...

In sports, it’s called a rebuilding year. It’s when everything’s gone wrong, but there’s still hope for the future. In life it’s called faith. Everything went wrong a year and a day ago when 15 year old Lenny Martelli fell off his snowboard in Schwenksville Pennsylvania. His friends gathered round him as he lay in the snow and they heard the words nobody wanted to hear. “I can’t move,” Lenny said. This is a story about a year when reason allowed no reason to hope. It’s a story about a miracle that culminated on the basketball court at St. Joseph’s...

Our dearest STARWISE is very nervous, very blue, and has a pit in her stomach. Her cherished Mom, Jennie, age 93, is very ill and STARWISE will be traveling tomorrow to be with her at her bedside with her family members.STARWISE wants you all to know how very grateful she remains for the prayers when her Mom was so sick about a year ago. She truly knows our prayers were an immense impact on Mom's recovery then.Please pray for our STARWISE, too,....for her calm.... and that her family may have peace and harmony in this time of need.

One of the most memorable experiences that I ever had was with the Miraculous Medal! It changed my life. In the fall of 1948, the year after my ordination, I was in what we call the Tertianship. This is a third year of Novitiate before taking final vows.In October of that year, a Vincentian priest came to speak to us young Jesuit priests. He encouraged us to obtain faculties, as they are called, to enroll people in the Confraternity of the Miraculous Medal. Among other things, he said, "Fathers, the Miraculous Medal works. Miracles have been performed by Our Lady...

16 Flood Victims Raised from the Dead in Brazil Saturday, January 22, 2011 By Bethel Church (RSS) A nurse is leading a mission team of doctors and nurses to Brazil. They left on Jan 13, 2011. They are still there until the 28th. On the 12th there had been massive flooding in Brazil and over 600 people died. They were not going for this reason but the timing of their trip just happened to coincide. Only one on the team had ever experienced the power of the Holy Spirit or miracles for that matter!! She had asked her friends to...

-click any to enlarge- Accident occurred north of Deer Lodge, Montana on I-90. The driver was a twenty-something guy headed back east to college. He had left central Washington early in the morning, but fell asleep at the wheel and drifted off the shoulder hitting the end of the section of guard rail at high-speed... The guard rail came through the right headlight, engine compartment, firewall, glove box, passenger seat, rear seat and exited out the driver s side rear window. That is 120 ft. of guard rail that threaded through the Suburban... Thankfully, there was no passengers in the...

President Obama’s dramatic news at last night’s memorial service in Tucson that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ has just minutes before opened her left eye for the first time since the shooting has created some confusion in light of news from doctors that Giffords “could open her eyes” on Sunday. But doctors today provided a simple explanation: Wednesday was the first time Giffords opened her eyes on her own, which Giffords' neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Lemole Thursday called “a major milestone.” “When we examine patients, particularly in this state we have to ‘wake them up,’ give them some stimulus, and with that stimulus...

Assassination target Rep. Gabrielle Giffords now is breathing on her own, defying almost all odds after Saturday’s shooting attack that killed six. "I'm happy to say she's holding her own," neurosurgeon G. Michael Lemole Jr. said, adding that Rep. Giffords, 40, can breathe on her own without a breathing tube. Her medical team prefers to use the tube in order to prevent infection. Jared Lee Loughner aimed at her in front of a Safeway supermarket Saturday, when she was hosting a community meeting. After shooting at her, he continued on a shooting spree, emptying out a cartridge of 30 bullets,...

A little girl who has been blind since birth has seen her mother and father for the first time - at the age of four. Izabelle Evans can now see up to three feet in front of her after groundbreaking stem cell treatment in China costing £50,000. Parents James Evans and Hollie McHugh said nothing could beat the feeling of the first time their daughter looked into their eyes and said: 'mummy' and 'daddy'.

WEST BURLINGTON - God sometimes just has to show off. That is the only way Penny Link and Shirley Martinez can explain the fact that their father, 84-year-old Gene Stotts, is alive and lucid. "It had to be a miracle," Link said during an interview Thursday. Only three days earlier, Stotts' family and friends believed him to be brain dead and had begun thinking about funeral arrangements. The daughters and their father live only blocks from each other in Oquawka, Ill. But rather than spending Thanksgiving eating turkey at home, Stotts' family spent the day in the waiting room for...

An uplifting pop gem arriving just in time for the holiday, "Miracle," produced by Dr. Luke protégé Kool Kojak (Flo Rida, Katy Perry, Ke$ha), is drenched in a joyful spirit and features chiming synths, bouncing beats and an irresistible chorus. Matisyahu says, "There are so many Christmas songs out there. I wanted to give the Jewish kids something to be proud of. We've got Adam Sandler's song, which is hilarious, but I wanted to try to get across some of the depth and spirituality inherent in the holiday in a fun, celebratory song. My boy Kojak was in town so...

BRANDON — A mother, daughter and friend were arrested at Chuck E. Cheese Sunday night after other customers complained about them cursing and disturbing other guests, deputies said. Shavonna Duff, 32, was arrested for trespassing as well as obstruction and battery on a law enforcement officer, said Debbie Carter, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman. Duff's 15-year-old daughter, Miracle, also faces felony charges for battery.

The Catholic lay Focolare movement will soon have its first beatified member. Chiara Badano, who died just 20 years ago while still a teenager, will be beatified Sept. 25 at the shrine of the Virgin of "Divine Love" (Rome - Castel di Leva) chaired by Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.Who is Chiara Luce? Let us get to know more about her..... Sometimes we’d prefer that our lives be a different story than the one God seems to be writing.  In our fragile existence it doesn’t take much to turn a romance into a...

Naples: Miracle of the Blood of St. Januarius Happened on Schedule Cardinal Sepe made sharp criticisms of the most recent Mafia Crimes when he preached at the St. Januarius Feastday Service. Rome (kath.net/KAP) At the time of the feast of St. Januarius, the legendary transformation of blood in Naples takes place again. Still, before the sermon of Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe during the Sunday Mass happens in the Cathedral he shows with the motion of a white drapery, the expected miracle. Finally, Sepe presented the ampules of the early Christian martyrs flowing blood to applause. A delay or the absence of...

LONDON (CNS) -- Catholic officials are investigating claims that a severely deformed baby was born in a perfectly normal condition after the child's mother prayed to Cardinal John Henry Newman for a miracle. Andrea Ambrosi, the Vatican lawyer in charge of Cardinal Newman's cause for canonization, has revealed in a BBC program to be broadcast Sept. 18 that he hopes the inexplicable healing may be the miracle needed to canonize Cardinal Newman as Britain's next saint. Pope Benedict XVI will beatify Cardinal Newman at a huge open-air Mass in Birmingham's Cofton Park Sept. 19, the last day of his four-day...

Christopher Hitchens is a well-known author and an evangelical atheist. He has often been harshly and unfairly critical of the Catholic Church, even to the point of attacking Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and calling for the arrest of Pope Benedict. But now, Mr. Hitchens has been stricken with incurable esophageal cancer. Our Lord has enjoined us to love all, especially those who despise us and would do us harm: "But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you. Bless them that curse you, and pray for them that calumniate you." (Luke...

Monday August 30, 2010 "Miracle" as Baby Begins Breathing after Two Hours By Hilary WhiteSYDNEY, Australia, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors were baffled in April when a premature baby boy whom they had pronounced dead appeared to come back to life after two hours of being held by his mother. Staff had given child, Jamie, a twin, to his mother to hold and to “say goodbye” after the 27-week gestation boy had been pronounced dead. The attending doctor had spent 20 minutes after the birth trying to get the boy to breathe. Kate Ogg, of Sydney, Australia, held...

It was a final chance to say goodbye for grieving mother Kate Ogg after doctors gave up hope of saving her premature baby. She tearfully told her lifeless son - born at 27 weeks weighing 2lb - how much she loved him and cuddled him tightly, not wanting to let him go. Although little Jamie's twin sister Emily had been delivered successfully, doctors had given Mrs Ogg the news all mothers dread - that after 20 minutes of battling to get her son to breathe, they had declared him dead. baby survival Awful moment: Kate and David clasp each other...

The Lockerbie bomber has secretly resumed hospital chemotherapy sessions in an attempt to beat his cancer, the Daily Mail can reveal. A year after Abdelbaset Al Megrahi was sent home to Libya to die with just three months to live, he is now making regular trips to a top medical centre for the 'very best care that money can buy'. (Snip) But the Mail has learned he is once again receiving help from cancer specialists, which his family hope will provide a 'miracle cure' and extend his life still further - possibly by more than 18 months. According to sources

Wednesday August 4, 2010 Pro-Life Speaker Melanie Pritchard's "Miraculous" Recovery By Mark HenryPHOENIX, AZ, August 4, 2010 (Catholic Online) - It all started out 7:00 a.m. Wednesday morning when Melanie Pritchard texted my wife Tina telling her that she was going into labor and "asking for prayers." After Tina and I returned from morning Mass, Melanie's friend Meghan called Tina in tears telling us that Melanie's heart stopped during delivery and she desperately needed our prayers.During the frantic drive to the hospital, my wife was distraught. She loved Melanie like a younger sister.  In Melanie's eyes, her greatest accomplishments are...

BREAKING NEWS: Abbey Sunderland has been found alive on her boat in the Indian Ocean. The signal from her boat was spotted by a chartered Airbus A330 aircraft. She was able to communicate with the aircraft via VHF radio. The boat is de-masted and unmaneuverable, but she has at least 30 days of food on board. A fishing ship is approximately 27-hrs, away from her and is currently en route to her location. This info was from a live news conference that was just broadcast on FOXX-11 News in LA.

This morning at Mass Fr. John Hedges gave a powerful talk on the Holy Eucharist. He mentioned in St. Faustina's Diary that Jesus told her that many people receive him as a "dead object." And after Holy Communion, it is as if he is invited in to someone's house and they close the door and leave. Fr. told us to prepare well and to spend time in silent adoration thanking God for the wondrous gift of his son. Then Fr.John told us that we had a desecration of the Eucharist last weekend and that it was not the first time!!!...

A gene silencing approach can save monkeys from high doses of the most lethal strain of Ebola virus in what researchers call the most viable route yet to treating the deadly and frightening infection. They used small interfering RNAs or siRNAs, a new technology being developed by a number of companies, to hold the virus at bay for a week until the immune system could take over. Tests in four rhesus monkeys showed that seven daily injections cured 100 per cent of them. U.S. government researchers and a small Canadian biotech company, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, worked together to develop the new...

HEALING TOUCH. Pope John Paul II reaches out to an ailing man as Mother Teresa looks on during the Pope’s visit to the Nirmal Hriday Home for the Dying in Calcutta. He toured the home Feb. 3, 1986, personally reaching out to 86 residents. From various accounts, he is still visiting the sick. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — Could the case of a Massachusetts man be used to advance Pope John Paul II toward sainthood? Thought there have been hundreds of cases reported of cures possibly attributable to John Paul’s intercession, one of them might involve a New Bedford, Mass., man...

NCAA brackets busted up? This year, even a miracle couldn't help! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the comic within this thread. Thanks!

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