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By Julia Meloni, OnePeterFive, May 21, 2024
Julia Meloni is the author of The St. Gallen Mafia (TAN, 2021). She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale and a master’s degree in English from Harvard.
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF)—in what has been described as a “crackdown”—recently released new norms for discerning apparitions. Revising a 1978 document on the topic, the updated norms, as a general rule, suspend judgment on the miraculous nature of alleged apparitions—arguably reflecting a neo-Modernist discomfort with the supernatural.
Under the old 1978 guidelines, there was a clear category expressing approval of an apparition (constat de supernaturalitate). Now, under the new norms, that category has been taken away, meaning an apparition can only be declared supernatural if, in an exceptional case, the pope formally declares it as such. …
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