Michael O’Neill – Exploring the Miraculous: How the Catholic Church Investigates and Reports on Miracles

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Wednesday

3:15 – 5:30 pm

Location: Grand Ballroom E

Come join “Miracle Hunter” Michael O’Neill as he explores the inner workings of the official investigative process of the Catholic Church into the supernatural. The workshop will include case studies and methodologies used by the Vatican for discerning claims of the miraculous and elucidate and unravel the complexities of the statements and other signals that are issued by the Church when recognizing a miracle as worthy of belief. O’Neill will also provide helpful tips on how to report all this back to the Catholic and secular public.

Target Audience: Communication Directors, reporters, broadcasters and aspiring miracle hunters!

Michael O’Neill is an author, speaker, and creator of the website MiracleHunter.com, the web’s top resource on Marian apparitions cited in news articles and blogs around the world and throughout renowned Mariologist Fr. René Laurentin’s comprehensive work “The Dictionary of the Apparitions of the Virgin Mary” (2010 Edizioni ART).

O’Neill, a graduate of Stanford University and member of the Mariological Society of America, has been interviewed about his research numerous times for features on Catholic television programs like EWTN’s News Nightly and Bookmark and radio like the Catholic Channel on SiriusXM and secular media outlets like “Fox & Friends” and Live Science magazine. He was a consultant for the National Geographic December 2015 cover story and map about the Virgin Mary “The Most Powerful Woman in the World” and was interviewed as the Marian expert on the corresponding television piece for NatGeo Explorer.

O’Neill is the host of the weekly Relevant Radio program “The Miracle Hunter™” and on December 8th, 2010, O’Neill served as the Marian expert for Relevant Radio on the live broadcast of the Mass in Champion, WI where David L. Ricken, Bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, gave his official declaration on the authenticity of the 1859 Marian apparitions to Adele Brise, the first such approval in the history of the United States. He co-hosted the television special Miracle Hunters (UpTV 2014) and is author of the books “365 Days with Mary” (Salt Media 2014) and “Exploring the Miraculous” (Our Sunday Visitor 2015).