The machinations of the political wing of the Catholic church are not relevant to the pure hearts of children who see the Blessed Mother, despite all their pronouncements.
What is sad that in any religion, the more ‘miracles’ are quashed, the less we see of them. And the less we look for them. A miracle is something unexplained and hits us in the heart as such - when science and religious politics wish to tear them down and make them ‘explainable,’ the less they are looked for.
Mankind will miss so much!
Check out the comments after the original article. What a parade of ignorance.
All of the major apparitions of Mary (like those at Lourdes, Fatima, Lasallette, and Tepeyac/Mexico City) have been to lay people, not priests and certainly not popes. Anyone who knew even the tiniest smidgeon of the history, (as I said to Kathy of San Mateo), would know that.
Secondly, if the Church were fraudulent, it would not invite scientific investigation of its most famous relics, e.g. the shroud of Turin, the tilma of Guadalupe, the “Ubi est Petrus” remains at Rome, etc.
In 1947, the Vatican established the International Medical Commission to investigate claims of miraculous cures. Since its foundation, the Commission has examined 1300 files and presented 29 to the church, which recognised only 19 as miracles.
The Church is not credulous; one could say the Church is “professionally skeptical” of claims, because throughout the ages it has had to investigate tons of them, only to find that so many (98%) were dubious or unproveable.
I applaud the respect for reason I find in Catholicism.