Three Days of Darkness?

[pat]

As an issue of apologetics, I would be equitable towards the person who fervently believes in TDoD and towards the person who dimisses it as nonsense.

I think this only harms the faith when it is used as a wedge to divide Catholics who believe and profess what the Church teaches. I’ve seen hostility in both directions: from the people like the Luekenites who would call its rejection a mortal sin and from people who would mock the idea the people would believe in TDoD

If belief in TDoD helps you be a better Catholic and a better person, I’m ok with that. To be technical about it, I’d call TDoD a tolerated pious speculation.

 

[Joanna]

Poisson:

Really? I thought the Zeitun, Egypt and Akita, Japan appartions were approved. I could be wrong.

Yes, they are approved and so is the apparitions in Finca Betania, Venezuela.

Apparitions of Our Lady in Finca Betania, Venezuela as "Mary, Virgin and Mother Reconciler of People and Nations"
officially approved by the Bishop Pio Bello Ricardo on November 21, 1987.

As to Zeitun, Egypt, where a woman of light was seen by thousands, the local Coptic Patriarch, Kyrillos VI, publicly announced a year after the apparitions started that he had no doubt that the Mother of God was appearing above the roof of St. Mary’s Coptic Church in Zeitun, Egypt.

members.aol.com/bjw1106/marian7.htm

And as to Akita:

On April 22, 1984, after eight years of investigations, the messages of Our Lady of Akita were approved by the Bishop of the diocese, Bishop John Shojiro Ito, Bishop of Niigata, Japan.

JUNE, 1988 – Vatican City – Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives definitive judgement on the Akita events and messages as reliable and worthy of belief.