miracles
Storytelling, cooking biryani: How displaced Shia Ismaili Muslim women rebuilt community
By Kathryn Post — July 7, 2023
(RNS) — Shenila Khoja-Moolji's new book records the histories of women in her faith community that are absent from religious archives.
We hoped for a miracle for OceanGate’s Titan crew. We ignore the ones waiting for us every day.
By Avi Shafran — June 30, 2023
(RNS) — The rabbis of the Talmud enjoined us to express boundless gratitude at our waking every day.
Vatican centralizes investigations on claims of Virgin Mary apparitions – but local Catholics have always had a say
By Deirdre de la Cruz — May 26, 2023
(The Conversation) — The Vatican plans to set up an ‘observatory’ to investigate apparitions of the Virgin Mary. A scholar of global Christianity explains why this is a major shift in how apparitions are authenticated.
What’s a ‘miracle’? Here’s how the Catholic Church decides
By Dorian Llywelyn — October 28, 2021
(The Conversation) — To qualify as a Catholic ‘saint,’ someone must have two miracles credited to them. But how does the church define a miracle in the first place?
In ‘Midnight Mass,’ there is ungodly horror and there are puritanical Christians
By Jillian Cheney — September 21, 2021
(RNS) — Watching the show's Muslim police chief try to convince parents to keep Bible classes out of public schools is like backing a losing sports team.
Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians’ climate change denial
By Adrian Bardon — September 11, 2020
(The Conversation) — Does religion predispose people against climate science? Studies link a belief in miracles and an afterlife with lower estimates of the risks posed by climate change.
What is the miracle of Hanukkah’s first night?
By Joshua Hammerman — December 20, 2019
(RNS) — It may be that 2,000 years later, Jews, a miraculously inextinguishable and inexhaustible people, still joyously light their menorahs and spin their dreidels as the sun sets.
Maggots may be a deus ex machina to save us from global warming
By Thomas Reese — July 10, 2019
(RNS) — The larvae of the black soldier fly not only help eliminate greenhouse gases, they become protein that, when roasted, can be used as feed for animals.
Chrissy Metz on ‘Breakthrough’: Everything happens as it should
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 16, 2019
(RNS) — The 'This Is Us' actress said she 'wholeheartedly' believes in miracles, including the one a doctor says occurred in the life of a boy whose true story is depicted in the movie, releasing for Easter.
Kenya’s Legio Maria sprouts believers in the shadow of the Catholic Church
By Tonny Onyulo — August 22, 2018
KISUMU, Kenya (RNS) – The group is often mistaken as being Catholic because it celebrates the main elements of the traditional Latin Mass. But its beliefs are anything but.
Can former journalist Lee Strobel make a convincing case for miracles?
By Jonathan Merritt — March 14, 2018
Former editor for "The Chicago Tribune" compiles evidence to prove miracles. But is it effective to build a logical case for a mystical event?
Bishop declares French Catholic nun’s cure a Lourdes miracle
By Associated Press — February 11, 2018
(AP) — It was the 70th miraculous recovery attributed to divine intervention in Lourdes.
From ‘Mean Streets’ to Marian miracles: Harvey Keitel to star in Fatima movie
By David Gibson — May 19, 2017
(RNS) The announcement follows a papal trip to the Portuguese shrine and continues a big month for the story of the Marian apparitions that occurred 100 years ago.
Pope sends video message of peace ahead of Fatima visit
By Josephine McKenna — May 11, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Speaking in Portuguese, the pope defined his two-day official visit to the Catholic shrine May 12-13 as a 'pilgrimage of hope and peace.'
The ’Splainer: Who is Our Lady of Fatima and what is the ‘Third Secret’?
By David Gibson — May 10, 2017
(RNS) Pope Francis will be the fourth pontiff to visit the famous Marian shrine in Portugal, and one of millions who travel there each year. What is the attraction?
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