Since unveiling a new set of norms for evaluating the validity of alleged Marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena, the Vatican has ruled on several cases. Recently it approved the devotion to two popular Marian appearances in Italy.
In mid-May, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published a new expedited procedure for vetting spiritual phenomena in which phenomena such as alleged Marian apparitions will no longer be judged “supernatural”, but based on whether anything stands in the way of promoting devotion to such apparitions.
