Catholic Guide to Miracles: Separating the Authentic from the Counterfeit

Adam Blai

ISBN 10: 1644132966 / ISBN 13: 9781644132968

Published by Sophia Institute Press May 2021, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catholic Guide to Miracles: Separating the Authentic from the Counterfeit
• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press May 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644132966
• ISBN 13: 9781644132968
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catholic Studies

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Synopsis

In this fascinating, eye-opening book, Adam Blai offers a uniquely comprehensive, careful, and thoughtful exploration of miracles, the Church s process of approving them, and the telltale signs of demonic counterfeits.

As a certified consultant for exorcists in the Diocese of Pittsburgh and an auxiliary member of the International Association of Exorcists, Blai has spent decades studying and experiencing the supernatural. His confidence in the supernatural is based not only on his faith, but on his extensive experiences and observations. Now he shares in extraordinary detail what he has learned about miracles and their meaning for Catholics today.

You ll come to understand why Christ allows miracles to occur in our day and savor a stunning variety of stories of healings, apparitions, Eucharistic miracles, modern-day stigmata, heavenly near-death experiences, angelic apparitions, and other amazing events. You ll find out how miracles are validated by the Church and why we should believe them. You ll learn the ranks that St. Thomas Aquinas applies to miracles and how science and modern medicine should increase our belief in miracles. You ll also discover:

• The history of miracles in the Old and New Testaments
• True stories of miraculous healings in our time How miracles prove the true apparitions
• The facts and fictions surrounding levitation
• How to identify false faith healers
• The most important Eucharistic miracles of our time

About the Author

Adam Blai, a layman, is a peritus (Church-decreed expert) in religious demonology and exorcism for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He has also served as an expert in these areas in training priests, deacons, and laity in many other dioceses. He is an auxiliary member of the International Association of Exorcists, a Vatican-recognized Private Association of the Christian Faithful based in Rome. Over fifteen years of working and training in the exorcism ministry, he has witnessed or experienced a number of miracles, some of which he has been appointed to investigate by the Church. He also works in the tribunal of the Pittsburgh Diocese and is pursuing a canon law degree.