February 12, 2026

Podcast: Are miracles making a comeback?

Madeleine Teahan
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This week, journalist Elizabeth Scalia, wrote: "Only three years ago, in Poland, a piece of bread, consecrated at Mass, appeared to start bleeding. Lab tests concluded that what appeared as bread was consistent with striated cardiac muscle, species human, and bearing cellular 'alterations that often appear as evidence of torture' in medical post-mortems."

Are miracles making a comeback? If so, what are they? Isn't the Church's belief in miracles increasingly hard to defend in an age of secularism, science and reason?

I decided to telephone Elizabeth and find out more. Enjoy!

The book discussed in this podcast is The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.

00:28 What is a miracle?

01:30 The tiny miracles in our lives

03:25 What happened in Poland three years ago?

06:50 Why do millennials believe in miracles?

09:25 God's message in a disposable age

To read the magazine in full, from anywhere in the world, go here.

This week, journalist Elizabeth Scalia, wrote: "Only three years ago, in Poland, a piece of bread, consecrated at Mass, appeared to start bleeding. Lab tests concluded that what appeared as bread was consistent with striated cardiac muscle, species human, and bearing cellular 'alterations that often appear as evidence of torture' in medical post-mortems."

Are miracles making a comeback? If so, what are they? Isn't the Church's belief in miracles increasingly hard to defend in an age of secularism, science and reason?

I decided to telephone Elizabeth and find out more. Enjoy!

The book discussed in this podcast is The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.

00:28 What is a miracle?

01:30 The tiny miracles in our lives

03:25 What happened in Poland three years ago?

06:50 Why do millennials believe in miracles?

09:25 God's message in a disposable age

To read the magazine in full, from anywhere in the world, go here.

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