Vatican reaffirms rejection of so-called apparitions of Our Lady of All Nations aleteia.org

There are undoubtedly hundreds of people around the world who currently claim to receive private revelations from God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, some angel or some saint. Supposed private messages of this kind are disseminated at great speed thanks to the internet, with different degrees of reach: sometimes local, or on other occasions, worldwide. They usually contain prophecies of catastrophe and divine wrath. In some cases, there’s a significant lack of Gospel content.

The hierarchy of the Church is usually silent in the face of these “new revelations,” and the reason for this silence is a mixture of prudence and patience. On one hand, the Church waits to see how the messages evolve, what ideas they spread, the life of the visionaries, and the spiritual and pastoral fruits; on the other, it tries to avoid giving a greater audience and more impact to these phenomena, many of which end up dying out on their own…

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