Today, the Vatican issued updated guidelines for reviewing apparitions, visions, and alleged revelations, and reaffirmed that only a pope could formally deem something “supernatural.”
The document, “Norms for Proceeding in the Discernment of Alleged Supernatural Phenomena,” was released by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and tasks bishops with investigating such cases, but mandates that they receive Vatican approval before ruling on the validity of alleged supernatural events.
The six new categories replace the previous three from 1978 and have been in development for the past five years.
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