The Gospels portray Jesus as a teacher, but also as a wonder-worker who turned water into wine, walked on water and fed a large crowd with minimal food.
The bigger pictureĬatholic belief in miracles is long-standing and rooted in what the church believes about the life and work of Jesus of Nazareth. She had been approaching what doctors considered almost-certain death in 2011 when her mother, nursing staff and a priest began praying desperately to the former pope. Pope John Paul I’s beatification was greenlighted by the sudden healing of an 11-year-old girl in Buenos Aires who had been suffering severe acute brain inflammation, severe epilepsy and septic shock. The healing must have taken place in ways that the best-informed scientific knowledge cannot account for and follow prayers to the holy person. In the canonization process, a miracle almost always refers to the spontaneous and lasting remission of a serious, life-threatening medical condition. Evangelical Lutheran church installs 1st transgender bishop
