I've seen surveys were Catholics are asked who they prayed to and God or Jesus weren't even the top of the list… wtf?

I'm also confused about why the Church even needs a criteria… it all seems to reveal itself for the sham that it is by the adjusted criteria (reduction of number of miracles) and dropping of saints who were no longer thought to have either existed or been as sinless as originally thought.. It also seems strange that saints seem only to work now via medical miracles, a lont of the earlier saints had a variety of miracles attributed to them in various domains but now it seems they've specialised in terminal illness cures.

Those crazy catholics…

Although, 1 Timothy 6:16 states

“God dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has even seen or can see.”

I am no theological[sic], but I am sure there is another passage in the Bible, or some liberal interpretations which can reverse this decree. Or maybe we can simply ignore it for convenience?

No theologian? That's an understatement! Of course, we're not confined to your false trichotomy – the other valid option is to engage in some proper exegesis. And when we do, we see that he's not saying 'no one will ever be able to' as you seem to have interpreted it – the word used 'dynamai' is in the present tense and speaks of present capabilities, which is of course absolutely consistent with the rest of Paul's writings which talk about the transformation in the future so that we will be able to. (sorry to dampen your love of proof-texting) And it's not even a 'decree' as you put it, but a piece of doxology. Perhaps you'd rather just ignore exegesis for convenience?

That aside, the whole RCC saint thing is a bit nuts. I mean, why would one take their chances praying to someone who hadn't yet proved themselves? (or more correctly, ask them to pray for you.. as I understand it, people don't pray to saints, but ask them to pray for them… I'm not sure what the difference is though) Maybe they just all missed the bit in Ephesians 2:18..?
[btw, how did you get your comments blockquotes to be styled differently to the main post?]

miracles are by definition not possible

How so 'by definition'?

Never got any screen time with the boy talking just the Mother saying she believed in healing power of God (but conveniently ignores the capacity for God to give someone such conditions) and recounting a 'vision' she had of Mackillop.

What annoyed me the most though was the reporter saying 'Jack's recovery baffled Doctors' and they then play a bite from his neurologist saying he treats lots of kids with various disorders and Jack is 'one special young man'. Didn't sound baffled to me! Has he recovered? The report never says that he no longer has any symptoms for his conditions… he really doesn't seem 100% recovered to me. As best as I can tell the kid has just had good treatment and support and fortunately it has worked rather well… where the fuck is the miracle? Is he the only child to live 5 years beyond a doctors predicted remaing years of life?

But that is how an atheist views it, I struggle to find meaningful answers from a religious perspective. Perhaps our resident sophisticated Christian may add his thoughts?

But, back to the point of Mary and her travelling sideshow, I'm still waiting to hear reasonable answers to a few questions: a) that already posed, why doesn't she answer more prayers? and b) I don't know much about religion, but why are these people praying to a middle[wo]man? What's wrong with just asking the big guy for help?