Are most of Catholic miracles fake?

That is a matter of opinion, but my own opinion is that miracles never happen. In the fifteenth century, the Protestant theologian Osiander said the rot really set in around the time of Gregory the Great in the late sixth and early seventh century... read more

Over the course of the nineteenth century Marian apparitions were claimed in virtually every country which boasted a Catholic population. “Miracles” do happen in the modern age. The Catholic Church regularly canonises its saints because obscure miracles are reported as carried out after prayer to the deceased saint. read more

Almost every religion has their own accounts of miracles: divine events that seem to transcend the natural law. But as science has marched forward, many seeming miracles wind up having scientific explanations. Still others are shown to be elaborate hoaxes. Even so, belief in miracles continues. read more

Miracles from the centuries following the apostolic period and prior to the modern age are similar to the biblical miracles in that they always seem to occur far enough away in time or space that they can not be verified, with the sometimes added characteristic that the miracle serves no particular purpose. read more