Apparitions

Spirit Daily, New Norms and Our Lady of America

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For the past few days, Michael Brown has carried an article over on Spirit Daily about the case of Our Lady of America and the new Vatican Norms on alleged apparitions. Here is how the SD front page looks like as of today (May 29):

The link (highlighted in the above image) asks if the “New Vatican rules on apparitions confer approval on U.S. one?” When you click the link, Brown discusses the “Our Lady of America” alleged apparition that received a negative judgment. This decision came under the previous Vatican Norms from 1978, which were then in effect.

On May 17, the Vatican promulgated new Norms that supersede the 1978 Norms. Michael Brown is now wondering if the Our Lady of America case now enjoys some kind of “approval” based upon the new Norms.

The answer is no. The case in question was decided when the 1978 Norms were in effect.
There is no retroactive conferral of approval with the new Norms now enjoying legal force.

Saverio Gaeta: The Secrets of Sister Lúcia

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Front cover of Gaeta’s book (photo of cover taken by KJS)

In November of 2023, the Italian journalist Saverio Gaeta published the book I segreti di suor Lucia – Fatima, la verità mai detta (The Secrets of Sister Lúcia: Fátima, the Truth not Told).[1] Comprised of a prologue and ten chapters, Gaeta’s book purports to be based upon documents from Sr. Lúcia’s canonization process that were confidentially provided to him.[2] Gaeta makes some very serious claims pertaining to the third part of the Secret of Fátima, and I’d like to discuss them.

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