Catholic Miracles: What Do They Prove?
The Object Test. A live masterclass on Zoom.
Saturday, November 14, 9–11 a.m. PT.
The Catholic case from miracles has gotten very good. Fatima, Lourdes, Zeitoun, Padre Pio, laboratory studies of Eucharistic hosts, ten-hour videos with primary sources and medical documentation. If you've tried to answer it, you know the problem. Answering one video properly takes about a hundred hours, and then there's another one. This isn't a course in answering them faster. It's a course in asking a different question.
 Join the Waitlist
Join the waitlist and you'll get first access on Monday, October 26, two days before anyone else, for $37. That's $10 off the $47 founding price, for waitlist students only. You'll get a code by email when enrollment opens. The price goes up after this cohort. No payment now.
Grant Everything
No naturalistic explanations. No fraud. No demons. Nothing here argues Catholicism is false. I grant every miracle for the sake of argument, on the most favorable terms, and the argument still runs.
One Question, Five Cases
What was the sign declared to confirm? I’ll turn that into four questions you can run on any miracle. We’ll run them on Easter first, then on Fatima from the 1917 documents, Zeitoun, Padre Pio, and Lourdes, the case where my own argument is weakest.
Catholic Sources Throughout
Vatican I, Dei Verbum, the Catechism, Cardinal Ratzinger’s commentary on Fatima, the Vatican’s 2024 norms, the Church’s critical edition of the 1917 documents, Garrigou-Lagrange on what miracles confirm, and Augustine on the miracles of his own day.
You Can't Keep Up by Researching Harder
Joe Schmid's "Miracles PROVE Catholicism" runs about ten hours. At an hour of research per ten minutes of video, and far more for the technical parts, working through it properly would take something like a hundred hours. That's a month of four-hour days for one video, and there's always another. So most of us end up in one of two places. We quietly assume the case must be right, or we reach for explanations we can't defend. There's a third option, and it starts somewhere counterintuitive. You don't have to answer the evidence. You have to ask what it proves.
Arguing Against Myself
I open by putting the case for Rome as strongly as its defenders do, in their own words, including the case that moved Joe Schmid and the dilemma built on it. No hedging, no strawman. If you can’t state an argument better than the people who hold it, you’re not ready to disagree with it. You’ll also leave knowing exactly what would prove me wrong. I’ll say it live.
What You Get
A ninety-minute live masterclass on Saturday, November 14, followed by thirty minutes of Q&A. A workbook that follows the talk, with a Four Questions card, space to reflect, three cases to try yourself, a self-quiz, and four handouts from the documents. A handout answering the objections people raise most often. And the recording, with access for one year.
How It Runs
It’s live on Zoom. Your join link arrives by email an hour before we start, so there’s nothing to log into on the day. The workbook and the recording live in the course on Kajabi. Can’t make it live? You’ll get the recording.
Who This Is For
This is for you if you've watched the miracle content and felt the weight of it, if you want a method you can use on cases nobody has analyzed yet, and if you'd rather have a good question than a bad answer. It's also for pastors whose people are asking about Fatima, and for Catholics who want to hear the best reply to their strongest argument. It isn't for you if you want proof that Catholicism is false, or an argument that the sun was an optical illusion, or a demon hypothesis, or ammunition. I mean that last one. If you leave with a weapon, I've failed.
About Me
I’m Christopher Cloos. I hold a PhD in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, specializing in epistemology, ethics, and philosophical theology, and I’ve published in Philosophical Studies and Episteme. I run The Protestant Philosopher and The Protestant Review.
Founding Students
Join the waitlist and you'll get first access on Monday, October 26, two days before anyone else, for $37. That's $10 off the $47 founding price, for waitlist students only. You'll get a code by email when enrollment opens. The price goes up after this cohort. No payment now.
