Status of Luisa Piccaretta?

[sealabeag]

A friend asked me recently what I thought about Luisa Piccarreta and the Divine will, her private revelations, etc. Not knowing much I turned to Google and have since read enough to make me fairly certain these claimed revelations are not authentic.
However, I can’t find anything online regarding the current position of the Church with regards her and her writings. I read that at some point Pope Benedict placed a moratorium on her writings but can’t seem to find any evidence of that, or if it was lifted.
I also see that some US bishops at certain points banned prayer meetings centred on her writings.

My question is: Does anyone have any up to date info on the Luisa Piccarreta situation?

I don’t need a discussion of the authenticity of these alleged revelations.
Thanks!

 

[aroosi]

Here the official website with all the updates about the status of the canonization process

https://www.luisapiccarretaofficial.org/cause

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Luisa is a Servant of God with an open, active cause that was transferred to Italy. From what I hear it’s gone okay so far, all have agreed she was basically a holy woman, though that’s no guarantee her cause will advance.

Her private revelations haven’t been approved. The Archbishop of Trani is supposed to be reviewing her spiritual diary and overseeing publication of an official edition if indeed it’s okay to publish.

The official Church-seal-of-approval English translation of her voluminous writings has not yet been published, to my knowledge. Her spiritual diary can’t be discussed here due to the prohibition on posting material from unapproved private revelations. It has some controversial stuff in it.

Meanwhile there are a lot of people including some priests who have been releasing various books containing or explaining Luisa’s writings despite the Archbishop of Trani expressing opposition to this. The priests in question are not under the Archbishop’s jurisdiction and at least one of them has claimed he has the approval of his own superior and implicitly the Vatican to release his book. He and some of the other priests also go around teaching workshops on this stuff. Some dioceses permit such workshops and prayer groups based on Luisa’s writings. A church near me has one weekly. I went a few times but haven’t been lately mostly due to COVID. The prayers were okay, mostly standard Rosaries and prayers for the President and stuff you expect to hear at prayer groups around here, but the leaders were not very organized and some of the other people in the group did not seem very knowledgeable either about Church teaching or scripture or private revelations, which bugged me. There are also people involved with this who chase after every alleged private revelation going, and are obsessed with end times prophecies, and that bugs me too. I’d rather just read the books at home.

There’s an article about Luisa detailing some of the controversy on CatholicCulture.org in the library section. I won’t link it here due to the ban on posting private revelation material, but it’s easily found.

In general if you are experienced with private revelations, then I don’t see a big issue with reading the books that have some type of approval like imprimatur. If you are not experienced with private revelation and have difficulty just rejecting stuff you read that might sound hinky, or you get nervous reading about end times, then I’d say skip this one.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

On the website Aroosi posted, I would note especially the March 4, 2020 communication from the Archbishop of Trani noting that there are a lot of Divine Will prayer groups and generally approving of them while also noting that some groups are using unapproved materials and/or going down a wrong track theologically (not surprising). In general I would expect prayer groups connected to a Servant of God to be okay. They would be considered evidence of cult for the sainthood process. So it seems unlikely bishops would ban them. Bishops could however object to materials used as lacking official approval, or object to a particular group if they felt it was misrepresenting or going against Church teaching.