The Vatican is cracking down on miracles. Here are the new rules for ‘supernatural’ occurrences
- Written by: Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
Gustave Moreau's The Apparition (1876-1877).© President and Fellows of Harvard College, CC BY-NC-SANew norms for differentiating supernatural phenomena from the natural within Roman Catholicism took effect on May 19.
The new norms arise from the need to evaluate as quickly as possible the supernatural origin or otherwise of an array of...
