Do you believe in miracles? In 2014, the answer is perhaps a foregone conclusion. Science offers a materialist explanation for everything from people who hear voices (schizophrenia) to manna from heaven (lice infesting the tamarisk shrubs found in the Sinai Desert). Technological and medical breakthroughs routinely save lives and restore faculties, leaving little need for divine intervention.
But the canonisation yesterday of two former popes, which drew more than a million worshippers to St Peter’s Square, means that miracles are in the news. To be proclaimed saints, it wasn’t enough for John Paul II and John XXIII to be much-loved leaders of the Catholic Church; they had to have worked miracles.
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