The Vatican on Friday cracked down on
apparitions saying only the pope can say what is superbnatural
or not after a self-styled 'seer' defied a ban on hosting
gatherings on a hill near Rome where she leads faithful in
prayers to an alleged apparition of Mary.
The Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document,
countersigned by Pope Francis, in which it narrows and almost
annuls the scope of the 'supernatural' nature of such alleged
phenomena.
Neither the local bishop nor the Vatican will any longer be able
to issue "a declaration about the supernaturalness of the
phenomenon", it said.
The declaration of supernaturalness is only up to the pope and
"in a totally exceptional way".
At Trevignano north of Rome, the local biship said in March that
alleged apparitions of Mary at the lakeside town are bogus,
ordering the woman who has been pointing them out to crowds for
years to stop her monthly gatherings there - a ban she has
flouted.
The bishop of Civita Castellana, north of Rome, Marco Salvi
issued a decree declaring the non-supernatural nature of the
alleged apparitions of the Madonna in Trevignano, on the shores
of Lake Bracciano.
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