What does a miracle decree say, and what does it not say?

🔥The question: “If ‘the Pope approved a miracle,’ does that mean it's 100 percent scientifically proven?”

🛡️The Church's answer: A miracle decree is a canonical and theological judgment that, on the basis of the documentation gathered on a particular case and the review by experts, that healing can be accepted within a beatification or canonization process as a miracle God granted through the candidate's intercession. It is not an infallible proposition of natural science saying “no science will ever find a natural explanation.” Nor is it a promise that anyone who prays to that candidate will receive the same healing.

📜What the Church has actually recognized: The subject of the decree, the event, the illness, the judgment, and the date have to be checked in the official document. Don't read the headline and stretch its scope to other healing stories or to every claim made about the saint.

🧐If they press further: “Does the Pope's authority take the place of a scientific conclusion?” — No. Medical experts handle how far the case can be explained medically, and the Pope approves a theological and canonical judgment on the basis of the Church's whole procedure, which includes that documentation.

✨In one sentence: “A miracle decree is a limited judgment of the Church about one specific case. It isn't a certificate that closes off all of science, and it isn't a promise guaranteeing every healing.”