Skeptics will also say miracles occur amid great loss. For example, a baby survives a building collapse but others die. Joe Nickell, columnist with Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, based in Amherset, N.Y., believes there just isn't enough evidence to prove miracles actually occur. But there are things we don't know. Maybe someone's DNA worked to clear it up.
Some diseases have spontaneous remissions.
Despite criticism, Catholics continue to believe. Thousands of believers are flocking to the Katharine Drexel shrine in Bensalem this year. The shrine expects to see 100,000 people in the year after Drexel's Oct. 1 canonization. Some of the shrine's visitors are battling illness, some are praying for others who are ill. All are hoping beloved Mother Drexel hears their prayers.