{"id":188,"date":"2016-02-14T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/?p=188"},"modified":"2016-02-14T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T13:04:05","slug":"justice-scalia-on-miracles-and-the-supernatural-mentions-medjugorje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/2016\/02\/14\/justice-scalia-on-miracles-and-the-supernatural-mentions-medjugorje\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Scalia on Miracles and the Supernatural – Mentions Medjugorje"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"By Stephen Ryan<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

May Justice Scalia rest in peace. As we all know he was a devout \u00a0Catholic. What many did not know was his strong beliefs in miracles and the supernatural.<\/p>\n

A few years ago Justice Scalia told a room full of lawyers and judges that Christians\u00a0 and Catholics should not be afraid to embrace the supernatural<\/p>\n

St. Thomas More Society honored Justice Scalia for his efforts on behalf of the Catholic Church. In his acceptance speech Justice\u00a0Scalia outlined a long list of Christian beliefs that he said are greeted with derision by the worldly \u2014 dogmas including Christ\u2019s divinity, the virgin birth and Christ\u2019s resurrection.<\/p>\n

Scalia said \u201cAlthough the sophisticated may deride them as simple-minded, committed Christians should have the courage to embrace their faith. It isn\u2019t irrational to accept the testimony of eyewitnesses to miracles\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat is irrational,\u201d he said, \u201cis to reject a priori, with no investigation, the possibility of miracles in general and of Jesus Christ\u2019s resurrection in particular \u2014 which is, of course, precisely what the worldly wise do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scalia cited the 10-year-old case of a priest in the Washington archdiocese who was said to have the stigmata. Statues of Mary and the saints appeared to weep in his presence.<\/a> Reporters for The Washington Post did a story and were unable to find an explanation for the strange phenomena.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy wasn\u2019t that church absolutely packed with nonbelievers,\u201d Scalia asked, \u201cseeking to determine if there might be something to this?\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer was obvious, he said with disdain: \u201cThe wise do not investigate such silliness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are regarded in the educated circles that you and I travel in as, well, simple-minded,\u201d<\/p>\n

The Catholic justice cited a story in The Washington Post that described Christian fundamentalists as \u201cpoorly educated and easily led. The same attitude applies, of course, to traditional Catholics,\u00a0who do such positively peasant like things as saying the rosary, kneeling in adoration before the Eucharist, going on pilgrimages to Lourdes or Medjugorje and \u2014 worst of all \u2014 following indiscriminately, rather than in smorgasbord fashion, the teachings of the pope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Ryan is the author of best selling Catholic thriller \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Madonna Files\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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