JARO, Iloilo City, July 16, 2012―A series of conferences on the scientific findings of the Eucharistic miracles will be held in the archdioceses of Jaro and Cagayan de Oro sometime this month.
The conferences, titled “Eucharistic Miracles, the triumph of faith over science”, will be open to the clergy, religious, the laity and the general public.
Main speaker for the conferences will be Dr. Ricardo Castañon Gomez, a Cognitive Neuropsychologist and a member of a pool of scientists that have examined various claimed mystical phenomena for the Church throughout the world.
A doctor in abnormal psychology, with university studies in Germany and Italy who specializes in psychosomatic medicine, Gomez has also carried out psychotherapy specialty studies in London, pathologies in Lyons-France, toxico-dependencies in the University of Berkeley in California and applied psychology in Louvain, Belgium.
Gomez is expected to come to the Philippines on July 21 until August 6, 2012 for the series of conferences.
Jaro Archbishop Angel L. Lagdameo and Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma have both confirmed their willingness to host the conferences. Talks are scheduled on July 21 to 24 for Jaro archdiocese and July 27 to 29 for Cagayan de Oro.
Gomez is the author of 14 books and more than 400 articles of science and disclosure. He has conducted conferences, among others, in the University of Georgetown in Washington, in the Pan-American Bank of Development, University Technical College of Madrid, University of Valladolid, University of Augustine Texas, Saint Joseph College of Sydney-Australia and with the same motive has visited New Zealand, Korea, Egypt, Israel, US, Europe and the Americas carrying out to the present more than 1700 conferences.
In July 2008, he was invited by the Vatican and Australian organizations to present the results of his investigations in Sydney, Australia in a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI during the World Youth Day.
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