Saintly ‘science’: When doctors and doubters are called upon to prove miracles

Canada's National Post has an article on the R.C. practice of miracle validation.

"Yet there is a rigour to both the language and the entire process used by the Catholic Church in the business of proving miracles...."

"A cadre of bishops, priests, canon lawyers and even the pope himself is involved in the process, which requires a miracle be “identified,” “investigated” and ultimately “confirmed.”

"During the last millennium, saint-making went from what Catholic scholar Lawrence Cunningham has called “fantastic folktales … appended with imagination” to the “bureaucratization of sanctity.”