Mark Gagnon

But despite that being only 1%, 70 miracles isn't nothing.

And notably, very few new miracles have been recognized in recent decades.

The most recent was in 2018, which really tells you something about how the bar has risen.

The process requires extensive medical documentation.

Doctors, including non-Catholic and non-believing physicians, examine the cases.

The healing must be complete, lasting, scientifically inexplicable, and no known medical treatment could account for it.

So here is the cross-examination.

No pun intended.

Get it?

Cross-examination.

Are the 70 recognized Lord's miracles actually miraculous?

Well, you see, skeptics will point out a few different things.

First, millions of sick people have visited Lord's.

With millions of trials, they would say some spontaneous remissions are statistically expected.

Cancer sometimes just goes away.

It's rare, but it does happen.

Second, the medical bureau's standards...

while rigorous for a religious institution, still are not the same as a double-blind, peer-reviewed clinical trial.

And third, and this is subtle, we only hear about the people who get better.

We don't track the millions of people who went home still sick or went home and got even sicker.