L'insolence des miracles

Nothing is more insolent than a miracle. He laughs at the laws, defies the religious authorities, provokes the skeptics... When Emile Zola, desystifying the sanctuary of Lourdes, chooses on the spot two dying tuberculous women to make them the characters of his novel and assists, ebahi, in their healing; when the bubbling Padre Pio, suspended by the Vatican for mystical imposture, gives sight to a child born without pupils; when a heroine of the Resistance is helping a ship bombed even though she is tortured in a Gestapo prison; when a host starts to leach herself live during a television mass; when the incurable illness of a little boy disappears by a simple request on the Internet, the reason is right to offend. Yet, all these cases have been authenticated by witnesses, scientists, historians, instruments of control. But are they a matter of divine intervention or secret capabilities of the human being? This or