Our Lady Of Lourdes

[palmas85]

I just read on one of the Traditional Web Sites that the Vatican has decreed that no more miracles will be recognized at Lourdes and that any cure there will be termed an inexplicable occurance. It also stated that all references to the appearances of the Blessed Virgin are to be discontinued and no longer mentioned on the feast day of Feb. 11.

Anyone heard anything about this or is this another propaganda attempt?

 

[TimOliv]

I cannot imagine that the Vatican would refuse to acknowledge miracles in a specified geographic location. For example, it would be odd to say “There will be no more miracles in Ohio”

Simply because the church does not determine where a miracle will or will not be.

However, simply by the volume of miracles that occur in Lourdes, perhaps the Vatican will not investigate any more of them to declare them as miracles. After all, there are more than enough to consider what happens at Lourdes to be “miraculous.”

 

[palmas85]

I cannot imagine that the Vatican would refuse to acknowledge miracles in a specified geographic location. For example, it would be odd to say “There will be no more miracles in Ohio”

Simply because the church does not determine where a miracle will or will not be.

However, simply by the volume of miracles that occur in Lourdes, perhaps the Vatican will not investigate any more of them to declare them as miracles. After all, there are more than enough to consider what happens at Lourdes to be “miraculous.”

Yea, the whole thig semed kind of off base to me as well. I checked out Zenit, CWN EWTN and the Vatican Web Site itself and could find nothing on it. I know that sometimes this particular web site either exagerrates or takes something slighty out of context without actually shall we say lie about things, but it also does come out with a lot of stuff that is true and ignored by the mainstream press. Since St Bernadette is my patron saint, I was just wondering.

 

[LilyM]

I cannot imagine that the Vatican would refuse to acknowledge miracles in a specified geographic location. For example, it would be odd to say “There will be no more miracles in Ohio”

Simply because the church does not determine where a miracle will or will not be.

However, simply by the volume of miracles that occur in Lourdes, perhaps the Vatican will not investigate any more of them to declare them as miracles. After all, there are more than enough to consider what happens at Lourdes to be “miraculous.”

Quite possibly - it’s not like St Bernadette needs them for her canonisation, or Rome needs them to declare the Lourdes apparitions worthy of belief - there have been more than enough miracles investigated for both purposes.

 

[Chatter163]

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