A Blind Priest's Case for Miracles | Fr. Robert Spitzer

A Blind Priest's Case for Miracles | Fr. Robert Spitzer

From Chris Stefanick Catholic Show by Chris Stefanick | Real Life Catholic

September 8, 2026 · 1h 30m

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Fr. Robert Spitzer discusses his experiences and evidence of miracles in Church history, particularly focusing on Fatima and Lourdes.

Fr. Robert Spitzer has spent his life studying the two most well-documented sets of miracles and healings in Church history. Blind since his early thirties from a degenerative eye condition, he joins Chris Stefanick to lay out the evidence behind Fatima and Lourdes like you've never heard it. In this episode: how losing his sight deepened his prayer life, his theory that St. Paul himself may have been going blind, the eyewitness account of the Miracle of the Sun and the staggering odds against a natural explanation, the discovery of the healing spring at Lourdes, a man's leg instantly restored after being severed by a falling tree, and the Nobel Prize-winning doctor who went to disprove a miracle and left converted instead. Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., is President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith and President Emeritus of Gonzaga University. Learn more at magiscenter.com Highlights 4:01 – How Fr. Spitzer prays through blindness 5:41 – "How has blindness blessed you?" 8:00 – A theory on St. Paul's "thorn in the flesh" 13:10 – The story of Fatima: what Mary told three children 20:29 – The bloodless miracle behind the Cold War's end 24:12 – The Miracle of the Sun and its 40,000…

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Organizations: Magis Center of Reason and Faith, Gonzaga University

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