My Human Heart
Where Science and Faith Collide

This book began with a simple question: does God truly intervene in the affairs of man?Seeking answers led to my involvement and reporting on the Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires—which I believe to be one of the most significant events in Christian history.I began to study claims of divine intervention. In the lives of the saints, many were said to have performed or experienced miracles. Scripture, too, is filled with accounts of Jesus performing miraculous acts when on earth.In the Catholic tradition, miracles remain woven into the very fabric of faith.Yet, in our modern, rational world—shaped by Enlightenment thinking—miracles are often dismissed as impossible or as mysteries that science will one day explain.St Francis of Assisi bore the Stigmata. St Catherine of Siena also received the Stigmata and profound dictations from Christ Himself.What would it have been like to be there to see these events unfold, to ask questions, and to examine them through the lens of modern science? Were such experiences confined to the distant past, or do they still occur today, unnoticed or dismissed by secular media?That curiosity led me to investigate claims from South America of a statue of Christ that wept blood, and of a person experiencing Stigmata—accompanied by mystical writings reminiscent of St Catherine's revelations.I invited Australian investigative journalist Mike Willesee, a sceptic, to join me in examining the evidence.Against this background, I was invited to assist in the investigation of the Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires of 1996, during the time when Pope Francis served as Archbishop. The findings—that a consecrated Host has transformed into tissue from the living heart of a traumatised human being—sent shockwaves through both science and faith.The final chapter will be when the genetic data of the Buenos Aires Host is compared to blood on the Shroud.