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To: wideawake

I would be appreciative if you could offer me some web sites regarding your statement “Gloria Polo’s claims are private revelations that have not received positive approbation from the Magisterium.”
Also if you could indicate a few web sites which might explain the proper interpretation of the decree of the “Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine and the Faith”, published in the “Official Acts of the Holy See” (A.A.S.) 58/16, dated December 29, 1966 (”The Canons of the Catholic Church About Private Revelation”).

Thank you


7 posted on 08/22/2012 10:08:04 AM PDT by JosephJames (The Truth Shall Set You Free (Jn 8:32)!)
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To: JosephJames
I would be appreciative if you could offer me some web sites regarding your statement “Gloria Polo’s claims are private revelations that have not received positive approbation from the Magisterium.”

Not a very logical request, since it asks for proof of a negative.

Since Gloria Polo's claims have never been given positive approbation by any magisterial source, there is no document to direct you to.

However, in order to publicly distribute such revelations licitly, there needs to be such an approbation.

So it would be incumbent upon the author of this article to produce such an approbation.

Also if you could indicate a few web sites which might explain the proper interpretation of the decree of the “Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine and the Faith”, published in the “Official Acts of the Holy See” (A.A.S.) 58/16, dated December 29, 1966 (”The Canons of the Catholic Church About Private Revelation”).

That 1966 rescript was clarified by another from the same source issued on October 23, 1995 in the same publication which states:

"With regard to the spreading of texts of presumed personal revelations, the Congregation makes it clear that:

"1. The interpretation by some people of a decision approved by Paul VI on October 14, 1966, and promulgated on November 15 of the same year, by virtue of which writings and messages coming from presumed revelations might be freely spread within the Church is absolutely not valid. This decision actually referred to the 'Abolition of the Index of Banned Books,' and said that - once relative censures were lifted - the moral obligation in any case not to spread or read those writings which endangered faith and morals still remained.

"2. A reminder, therefore, that for the diffusion of texts of presumed private revelations, the norm of the Code in force, Canon 823, para 1, which gives pastors the right 'to demand that the writings of the faithful which touch faith or morals be submitted to their own judgment before publication', remains valid.

"3. Presumed supernatural revelations and writings which regard them are in the first instance subject to the judgment of the diocesan bishop and, in particular cases, to that of the episcopal conference and the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith."

So, unless the local ordinary, or the local episcopal conference, or the Holy See has explicitly given approbation to a private revelation then it is not licit to distribute it.

8 posted on 08/22/2012 10:35:31 AM PDT by wideawake
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