Pope Leo XIV declared the 2007 recovery of an ailing premature baby at a Rhode Island hospital a miracle, crediting a physician’s prayer with saving the baby’s life, the Vatican announced.

Pope Leo XIV has officially recognized his first miracle since assuming the papacy—an astonishing 2007 case in which a newborn baby in Rhode Island miraculously revived after being declared ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States who also holds Peruvian citizenship, recently declared that a miracle had taken place in Rhode Island. He said it happened thanks to the help of ...

Pope Leo XIV has officially declared as a miracle the remarkable recovery of a premature baby in a Rhode Island hospital in 2007, after attributing the healing to a prayer addresse ...

God is indeed close to us," said Father Timothy Reilly, chancellor of the diocese. Pope Leo XIV gestures as he holds his first general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, May 21, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV has declared the first miracle of his papacy, referencing the birth of a baby boy in Rhode Island in 2007. The newborn's heart stopped, and then his doctor prayed to a 19th century ...

Pope Leo XIV recently declared the healing a miracle attributable to the intercessory prayer to God by Don Salvador Valera Parra (1816-1889), a priest from Huércal-Overa, Spain, who is known as ...

The doctor at the heart of Pope Leo XIV's first officially recognized miracle has broken his silence. Dr. Juan Sánchez-Esteban released a remarkable statement after the Vatican attributed the ...

Pope Leo XIV said a miracle in Rhode Island can be attributed to the intercession of a 19th century Spanish priest. The Vatican said a baby born in 2007 was inexplicably healed after a prayer to ...

Pope Leo XIV has officially declared his first miracle as pontiff, crediting the 2007 recovery of a dying newborn in Rhode Island to divine intervention following a physician's desperate prayer.