I remember the Catholic Teaching Monk's interpretation of Jesus' first
miracle when I was at Catholic Grammar School.
(They emphasised that the first miracle was an important one)
However, they also suggested that it was possible that Jesus had asked
the servants to pour water into the lamb skins used to hold the wine,
therefore the infused water therein could be mistaken for wine.
They were a strange lot, those Teaching Brothers, as they were called.
They fully accepted evolution and the Big Bang Theory and quite often
looked for rational explanations for many miracles.
I remember one of them suggesting that Moses' parting of the waters was
simply due to the fact that the Nile often shrinks leaving small pockets
of water in places, and that Moses simply navigated his flock through
the safer parts.
When I think back on it, some of those teaching monks at the school were
quite radical by today standards.
When I look at fundamentalists today, I'm left wondering if I happened
to go to a particularly radical Catholic Grammar School in England or
whether this was what was being taught at all Catholic schools in the 70's.
Actually, thinking back on it, maybe this stuff only came from one
priest at the school.
Maybe he was a rebel or a secret agent for the Evil Atheist Conspiracy.