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Was Mysterious Priest at Car Wreck an Angel?

The family of the victim think he might be

(Newser) - A mysterious priest who showed up to pray at the site of a car crash near Center, Missouri, has some of the people involved talking about angels and miracles. Katie Lentz, 19, was hit head-on by another car Sunday morning; the Mercedes she was driving flipped and she was pinned...

Woman Survives Car's 40-Foot Plunge Off Bridge

Morgan Lake, 22, 'started to drown' ... then decided to live

(Newser) - It's the kind of story that rarely comes with a happy ending, but Morgan Lake's tale is the incredible exception. The 22-year-old was crossing Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Friday night when she spotted danger in her rearview mirror: a truck barreling toward her at "full...

John Paul Gets His 2nd Miracle
 John Paul Gets His 2nd Miracle 
Jun 19, 2013 8:39 PM CDT

John Paul Gets His 2nd Miracle

Ill woman reportedly recovers, moving him closer to sainthood

(Newser) - Pope John Paul II continues to zip along toward sainthood. A Vatican official tells the Telegraph that a second miracle has been attributed to the late pontiff, reportedly of a gravely ill Costa Rican woman who prayed to his memory and recovered. Cardinals and Pope Francis are expected to sign...

19th-Century German Nun Performed Miracle: Vatican
19th-Century German Nun 
Performed Miracle: Vatican
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Apr 20, 2013 6:30 PM CDT

19th-Century German Nun Performed Miracle: Vatican

Affirmed Mother Theresia Bonzel healed Colorado Springs boy in 1999

(Newser) - For anyone looking for a miracle amidst the gloomy news, the Vatican provides: The Denver Post reports that Pope Francis has set a 19th-century German nun on a journey toward sainthood after verifying she was responsible for healing a Colorado Springs boy in 1999. In the first days of his...

'Virgin Mary Tree' Sparks Knotty Problems

NJ cops quell disputes, protect 'miracle' as throngs flock to see 'Virgin'

(Newser) - A knot in a tree said to resemble the Virgin Mary is sparking a holy mess in a New Jersey town. Throngs are coming to pray and weep before the "miracle" spotted earlier this month by a woman riding to her job in a perfume factory. Others come to...

Dallas Mayor: It&#39;s a Miracle
 Dallas Mayor: It's a Miracle 
Apr 5, 2012 2:32 AM CDT

Dallas Mayor: It's a Miracle

It's 'amazing' no one was killed amid massive destruction, he says

(Newser) - Eighteen-wheelers were sent spinning though the air , hundreds of homes were smashed and cars crunched when as many as 13 tornadoes hit the Dallas region —but "miraculously" not a single person lost their lives, said a stunned mayor. "It looks like the Dallas-Fort Worth area really...

Shroud of Turin Real, Not Forgery, Italian Study Concludes
 Shroud of Turin Can't Be Fake 
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Dec 24, 2011 7:20 AM CST

Shroud of Turin Can't Be Fake

Researchers think you'd need lasers to reproduce it

(Newser) - The Shroud of Turin must be real rather than a medieval forgery, an Italian study has concluded, because the markings on it could not possibly have been created with medieval technology. Scientists tried to recreate the sepia image of a crucified man that graces the shroud, and found its physical...

Denver Broncos Quarterback Tim Tebow, Miracle Worker

 Tim Tebow: 
 Miracle Worker 
OPINION
Dec 12, 2011 12:02 PM CST

Tim Tebow: Miracle Worker

Sports analysts agog after Denver Broncos' latest victory

(Newser) - After a stunning performance in yesterday's last-minute 13-10 victory against the Chicago Bears, sports commentators are wondering if Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow really is capable of miracles.
  • Declaring Tebow his "personal quarterback and savior," Jeff Neuman at RealClearSports catalogs five miracles made in last night's
...

12-Year-Old Girl Key in Boy's Dramatic Ocean Rescue

Nicole Kissel risked her own life to help Dale Ostrander

(Newser) - When Nicole Kissel heard fellow 12-year-old Dale Ostrander's cries for help, she turned her boogie board toward the deeper waters of the turbulent Pacific even as her father shouted for her to stop. She pulled Dale onto her board, and the two fought the rip current together, even as...

Woman Claims Miracle by Controversial Pope

She says Pope Pius XII intervened with God to cure her cancer

(Newser) - Pope Pius XII: controversial pope, saint? Possibly. An Italian woman says the World War II-era pope, who many Jews say failed to speak out enough to stop the Holocaust, is behind her miraculous recovery from cancer. Maria Esposito had wasted away to 92 pounds and tells the AP she couldn'...

NC Locals Hail &#39;Kudzu Jesus&#39;
 NC Locals Hail 'Kudzu Jesus' 
Jun 30, 2011 3:00 AM CDT

NC Locals Hail 'Kudzu Jesus'

A little bit of paradise near a hotdog stand

(Newser) - Other states might be green with envy, but it's only North Carolina that can claim its very own "miraculous" Kudzu Jesus. The mass of runaway weeds growing up a power utility pole and wires near the town of Kinston looks remarkably like Jesus Christ on the cross, say...

Turin Shroud Is Art, Not Relic: Book

Art historian says he has spotted artist Giotto's signature

(Newser) - The "miraculous" Shroud of Turin is not the actual burial cloth that covered Christ's body, but is merely the work of a Renaissance artist. That's the claim in an explosive new Italian book. Many Catholics believe the shroud shows a mysterious, miraculous image of Christ's body,...

25 Years Later, We Still Need Oprah
 25 Years Later, 
 We Still Need Oprah 
OPINION
May 24, 2011 1:57 PM CDT

25 Years Later, We Still Need Oprah

She's an antidote to our cynical world: Mary Elizabeth Williams

(Newser) - Oprah Winfrey’s TV tenure can be summed up in a single word: “miraculous,” writes Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon . “Winfrey's entire empire is built on the idea that miracles—not just good fortune or persistence or community but honest-to-God miracles—are within our reach every...

Japan Earthquake Miracles: Baby Rescued From Rubble, and More

 Baby Pulled From 
 Rubble in Japan 
and more miracle rescues
Mar 15, 2011 9:20 AM CDT

Baby Pulled From Rubble in Japan

Elderly woman also rescued from house after five days

(Newser) - From the devastation in Japan, a few miracles: Most notably, a 4-month-old baby pulled from the rubble in the coastal town of Ishinomaki, where she had been wrenched from her parents’ arms when the tsunami hit three days before. Soldiers, whose mission had turned from rescue to recovery after finding...

John Paul's 'Miracle' Shows Catholic Church's Hypocrisy

Michael Kinsley: If we used stem cells, we wouldn't need miracles

(Newser) - News that the Vatican has given the late pontiff John Paul II credit for a miracle related to Parkinson's leads Michael Kinsley—who has Parkinson's himself—to one conclusion: "The Roman Catholic Church has either a very good or a very bad sense of humor." After all, if...

John Paul II to Be Beatified in May
John Paul II to Be
Beatified in May
Jan 14, 2011 8:52 AM CST

John Paul II to Be Beatified in May

Pope Benedict certifies miracle healing

(Newser) - Pope John Paul II will be beatified May 1, the Vatican announced today. The news follows Pope Benedict's determination that his predecessor performed a miracle when a nun was cured of Parkinson’s disease after praying to him, the Los Angeles Times reports. It’s been a speedy road toward...

Eight 'Miracles' Reported in Pope-Crazed England

Free prawn crackers, anyone?

(Newser) - Ah, the power of citizen journalists at work. The Guardian is asking its readers to help it track Pope Benedict’s trip to England, requesting reports of popemobile sightings, protests and… miracles. So far, eight miracles have been reported, but we’re pretty sure most of them are jokes. Or...

Medical Journal Retracts Paper on Jesus Miracle

Researchers relied solely on biblical accounts

(Newser) - A medical journal has retracted an article about a miracle attributed to Jesus and apologized for publishing it. The paper in Virology Journal, titled ''Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time," speculated on the cause of a...

'Jesus' Seen in Google Earth
 'Jesus' Seen on 
 Google Earth 

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Jul 10, 2010 12:13 PM CDT

'Jesus' Seen on Google Earth

'It's obvious,' says spotter

(Newser) - An Internet surfer perusing Google Earth has reported finding what he calls the face of Jesus in a pattern of fields in Hungary. "I'm not a religious person looking for images of Mary or Jesus in everything, but this is obvious," said Zack Evans, 26, a sales assistant...

Hitler Aimed to 'Steal' Turin Shroud

Adolf was 'obsessed' with miraculous relic

(Newser) - The Vatican hid the Shroud of Turin at an Italian abbey because Hitler was "obsessed" with the purported burial cloth of Christ and officials worried he planned to add it to his collection of stolen artworks and relics. The shroud, imprinted with the image of a face believed by...

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