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This is a fabulous article–a guidebook, really–to navigating through the swamp of private revelations that exists in today’s Catholic world. It is an absolute must read for people who are adherents to self-proclaimed visionaries and purported apparitions that have not been ruled upon or that have been ruled upon negatively by The Church; i.e. Constat de non supernaturalitate or Non-Constat de supernaturalitate: the former meaning absolutely no supernatural events are occurring and the second meaning evidence of supernaturality has not been determined.
For example, Medjugorje falls under the unapproved category because of its non-constat de supernaturalitate status, because Bishop Zanic declared a prohibition on the publication of the messages, and because Bishop Ratko Peric is now calling for, in so many words, constat-de non supernaturalitate. (He also called for such a few years ago in his letter to Thierry Boutet, available from catholicculture.org). But I digress. Please, don’t post Medjugorje messages or promote this unapproved apparition on this thread, as admin will shut my thread down. And if my thread is shut down, I’ll have to hunt you down and sic my kitties on you. HA! One is a moody half-Siamese who likes to chew things, so beware. LOL!!!
Anyway, The subject for this thread is, in general, private revelation and its discernment, as taught by the Church, and discussion of this article.
**This is a GREAT article. It’s written by a priest, too, and is one of the best I’ve come across in this subject area, written in layman’s terms:
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catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/mary/apparitions-truefalse.htm
Oh, and if anyone has the official document from the Vatican regarding Discernment of private revelation, please post it. I have a link to all the Papal Encyclicals and Apostolic Letters but I can’t tell which document is the article on discernment because the links (titles) are written in Latin or Italian. I basically only speak English. Thank you!
God bless!
For example, Medjugorje falls under the unapproved category because of its non-constat de supernaturalitate status, because Bishop Zanic declared a prohibition on the publication of the messages, and because Bishop Ratko Peric is now calling for, in so many words, constat-de non supernaturalitate. (He also called for such a few years ago in his letter to Thierry Boutet, available from catholicculture.org). But I digress. Please, don’t post Medjugorje messages or promote this unapproved apparition on this thread, as admin will shut my thread down. And if my thread is shut down, I’ll have to hunt you down and sic my kitties on you. HA! One is a moody half-Siamese who likes to chew things, so beware. LOL!!!
Anyway, The subject for this thread is, in general, private revelation and its discernment, as taught by the Church, and discussion of this article.
**This is a GREAT article. It’s written by a priest, too, and is one of the best I’ve come across in this subject area, written in layman’s terms:
**
catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/mary/apparitions-truefalse.htm
Oh, and if anyone has the official document from the Vatican regarding Discernment of private revelation, please post it. I have a link to all the Papal Encyclicals and Apostolic Letters but I can’t tell which document is the article on discernment because the links (titles) are written in Latin or Italian. I basically only speak English. Thank you!
God bless!