Read an Oct. 19, 2012, article from the Catholic News Service about a woman who believes a miracle cured her disease.

The Rev. Chuck Dahm is a Dominican priest and directs the Domestic Violence Outreach program for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He is the author of Parish Ministry in a Hispanic Community, which includes a section on violence and machismo.

The Rev. Robert VerEecke is a Catholic priest and pastor of The Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York, N.Y. He has written about liturgical dance and dance as prayer and leads workshops on embodied prayer in the Boston area.

The Rev. Gerry O’Hanlon is the author of The Recession and God: Reading the Signs of the Times and is director of the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. Contact through the center.

Charles Clark is an economics professor at St. John’s University in New York and an expert on Catholic social teaching and economics.

Paula Kane is an associate professor of Catholic studies at the University of Pittsburgh and teaches American religious history. She has been studying stigmata and Marian apparitions.

Read the entry on miracles in the 1911 edition of The Catholic Encyclopedia. (The 1911 edition has since been superseded in some respects, but this entry is a good historical overview.)

Paul Jarzembowski is the USCCB representative to the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association, which is an outreach to singles and couples in their 20s and 30s.