 UFOs Vs. Eucharistic Miracles By Cliff Kincaid If God is using President Trump to save America and his escapes from death have been part of that plan, as some Christians maintain, then the occurrence of other miracles in the world today deserves some scrutiny. Are they related to Bible prophecy and the “end times?” And have they occurred in the United States? According to some students of Bible prophecy, who cite Revelation 13:16-17, the future involves a world government and a world religious system, underpinned by a technological infrastructure that results in what is called the “Antichrist,” a person or a system of global control. Could that be artificial intelligence? I wrote two books, Global Bondage and Global Taxes for World Government, predicting the rise of global structures and even taxes that are designed to control nations, especially the United States. To counter these ominous developments and reinforce traditional Christianity within the U.S. and other nations, there are some who believe the Church has to return to the time of Christ, when Christ died and rose from the dead, and then returned to the earth to perform miracles. To confirm his divine mission, he displayed his scars from wounds on the cross. “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed,” Christ said to doubting Thomas (John 20:29), who demanded physical proof of the resurrection. In this context, a new book, Flesh, Blood, and Wonder, has collected and analyzed what are called “Eucharistic miracles,” in which the real presence of Jesus Christ, in the form of flesh and blood, has allegedly been found in communion hosts. The book by Daniel Green studies these alleged miracles across history, even identifying the countries where they occur. One noteworthy omission – the United States. Most Protestants, of course, reject the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, the change of bread/wine into actual body/blood during the Eucharist. However, these extraordinary cases, if true, raise the question of whether modern-day Christians should forgo involvement in the political affairs involving church and state and instead concentrate on salvation and the afterlife by offering potential believers the scientific facts about the role of Christ in salvation from the earth’s domination by Satan. William Peter Blatty’s book, The Exorcist, was the basis of the film by the same name, and he also wrote Legion, a book about demons based on Satan’s proclamation, “My name is Legion, for we are many,” in answer to Jesus’ question, “What is your name?” An exorcism in Mount Rainier, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area, inspired the book by William Peter Blatty and the film, “The Exorcist.” Rather than attempt to analyze and explain how and why spiritual events are happening, the current trend in the media is to consider whether outer space aliens are all around us, and why they have not landed and greeted us. Little green men seem to be more newsworthy than spiritual phenomena confirmed by the church and other experts. Currently in the news, according to a Department of War release, the Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) are releasing files regarding “unresolved UAP-related records and historical documents in the federal government’s possession.” UAP refers to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. President Trump has figured prominently in some interpretations of Bible prophecies, with many saying that God intervened in Butler, Pennsylvania, to save his life during that assassination attempt. The Philadelphia Church of God’s publication The Trumpet had predicted that Donald J. Trump would return to the White House after his “loss” in 2020 so that America could have one final chance to save the world from the approaching apocalypse. Its publication declared, “Why God Is Protecting Donald Trump: Yes, it was a miracle. This raises the crucial question everybody should be asking.” Some Catholics and non-Catholics regard Trump as a “modern-day Cyrus the Great,” the Persian King, who aids the Jewish people to prevent their annihilation. A film, “The Trump Prophecy,” examines this possibility. For the rational man, in need of a spiritual dimension of life, the fascination with UFOs continues with no definitive confirmation or rejection of what is actually happening in these strange occurrences. Nevertheless, the media are entertained by the hoopla and pass it on to the news “consumer” as something worthy of attention. However, Eucharistic miracles get less attention but have the potential to be definitely determined to be real or false since a physical change in the communion wafer can be observed and studied. The Catholic Church confirms several eucharistic miracles, in which the host becomes flesh and blood, as well as Fatima, the place where in 1917 Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared to three children in a vision, followed by the “Miracle of the Sun.” According to the church, the appeal from the Mother of God was to consecrate communist Russia to avoid “errors” from that country which that would devastate the world. A recently claimed Eucharistic miracle at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Morris, Indiana, was declared not miraculous, as laboratory tests were said to confirm the red spots on a host were caused by common bacteria, not human blood. But Sophia Press has published a book by cardiologist Dr. Franco Serafini, who examines five alleged Eucharistic miracles and contends they are authentic. His book is titled A Cardiologist Examines Jesus: The Stunning Science Behind Eucharistic Miracles. Daniel Green says his book grew out of both an interest in the collection of Eucharistic miracles by a young man named Carlo Acutis and a desire to explore how modern tools and data analysis can help draw people nearer to Christ and His Real Presence in the Eucharist. Carlo Acutis, who died at the age of 15 from leukemia, was a teenager fascinated with computers, the Internet, and even video games who created a website examining “the Eucharistic Miracles of the World.” He was declared by the Catholic Church as the first millennial saint on September 7, 2025 and then canonized by Pope Leo XIV following the recognition of two miracles associated with his life and death. Green’s analysis of the relationship between faith, history, and evidence is worthwhile, especially if we want to understand Bible prophecy and the end times. Yet, the first generation of Christians thought they were living in the “final days” back then and so a careful analysis of spiritual phenomena is required. From a religious perspective, there are many strange occurrences in the world today that deserve comment, including possibly UFOs. There are reports of exorcisms, in which demon-possessed individuals are freed from Satan; Stigmata, in which people develop the wounds of Christ; and the case of the Shroud of Turin, considered by many the burial cloth of Christ. Interestingly, Dan Green says the cover of his book was developed with editorial assistance from ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence application developed by OpenAI. It shows a microscope examining a communion host and revealing the heart of Christ. Are eucharistic miracles the real flesh and blood of Jesus Christ? I asked Google’s AI app Gemini. The answer concluded, “While science can identify the biological nature of the tissue (e.g., ‘this is human heart muscle’), it cannot verify the supernatural origin of how it got there. For many, acceptance remains a matter of faith rather than empirical proof.” In other words, the implication is that the biological tissue could have been planted by somebody or manipulated in some way. Green is convinced the changes that he has documented are miraculous transformations and a supernatural reality that can change lives, prompting fear in some and repentance in others. America is certainly in need of the latter, for even the secular publication Axios has written about “America's sin spiral,” noting that “Once-forbidden vices — weed, gambling and porn — are no longer confined to back alleys or the desert [Nevada].” It sounds like a spiritual indictment that is certainly relevant as America celebrates its 250th anniversary. The omission in the article is the sin of media malpractice by Big Media and Big Tech and the tendency to facilitate the downward spiral of a once-moral people.
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