A Blind Priest's Case for Miracles | Fr. Robert Spitzer

Fr. Robert Spitzer has spent his life studying the two most well-documented sets of miracles and healings in Church history. Blind since his early thirties from a degenerative eye condition, he joins Chris Stefanick to lay out the evidence behind Fatima and Lourdes like you've never heard it.

In this episode: how losing his sight deepened his prayer life, his theory that St. Paul himself may have been going blind, the eyewitness account of the Miracle of the Sun and the staggering odds against a natural explanation, the discovery of the healing spring at Lourdes, a man's leg instantly restored after being severed by a falling tree, and the Nobel Prize-winning doctor who went to disprove a miracle and left converted instead.

Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., is President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith and President Emeritus of Gonzaga University. Learn more at magiscenter.com

Highlights
4:01 – How Fr. Spitzer prays through blindness
5:41 – "How has blindness blessed you?"
8:00 – A theory on St. Paul's "thorn in the flesh"
13:10 – The story of Fatima: what Mary told three children
20:29 – The bloodless miracle behind the Cold War's end
24:12 – The Miracle of the Sun and its 40,000 witnesses
28:25 – The "supernatural lens" theory, explained
38:16 – Bernadette and the apparitions at Lourdes
48:00 – The instantly healed leg of Pierre de Rudder
54:43 – Why the real number of Lourdes miracles is far higher than reported
56:00 – The political battle over the Lourdes grotto
1:01:37 – The Nobel laureate who tried to disprove a miracle
1:09:30 – Why Fr. Spitzer believes he was never healed
1:16:40 – Gabriel Gargam: paralyzed, then instantly healed
1:22:00 – "35,000 miracles... something is going on"

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - Fatima and Lourdes
• (00:00:39) - A Taste of God's Presence
• (00:01:14) - The Joy of Prayers
• (00:03:06) - Blind People Praying
• (00:09:38) - How to Know the Lord Loves You
• (00:10:58) - Daily Inspiration
• (00:11:38) - Wonders of the World
• (00:12:52) - Fatima
• (00:20:30) - In the Elevator With Mikhail Gorbachev
• (00:21:38) - John Paul II and the Soviet Union
• (00:24:01) - Miracle of the Sun
• (00:33:22) - The Miraculous Lens at Fatima
• (00:38:12) - The Story of Lourdes
• (00:39:00) - Bernadette at the Lourdes
• (00:44:59) - Wonders of the Water
• (00:51:43) - 7,000 Naturalistically Indefensible Miracles
• (00:57:27) - The Miracle of Bernadette Subaru
• (01:01:28) - The story of Alexis Carroll and Marie Bailey
• (01:09:29) - Paul on the Miracles
• (01:14:06) - Blind People's Joy and Acceptance
• (01:17:35) - The story of Gabriel Gargam
• (01:24:05) - The Miracles of Lourdes