The Third Miracle : An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith

"On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep in the Indiana woods, a Baptist handyman named Phil McCord made an urgent plea to God. He was by no means a religious man but he wasa desperate man. McCord's right eye was a furious shade of red and had pulsed for months in the wake of cataract surgery. He had one shot at recovery- a risky procedure that would replace part of his diseased eye with healthy tissue from a corpse. Dreading the grisly operation, McCord stopped into the convent's chapel and offered a prayer a spontaneous and fumbling request of God- Can you help me get through this? He merely hoped for inner peace, but when McCord awoke the next day, his eye was better suddenly and shockingly better. Without surgery. Without medicine. And no doctor could explain it. Many would argue that Mother Theodore Guerin, the long-deceased matriarchal founder of the convent, had interceded on McCord's behalf. Was the healing of Phil McCord's eye a miracle? hat was a question that the Catholic Church and the pope himself would ultimately decide. As part of an ancient and little-known process, top Catholic officials would convene a confidential