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To: Blogger
Those are "Catholic offshoots" in the same way in which the Mormons are. Your link explicitly says that the Holy see condemns them and took harsh actions against them:
Pope Benedict, for one, takes [the false seers] seriously. Three years ago, while Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), he said that private revelations posed a threat to the unity of the Church and warranted an “exemplary pastoral response” from the Holy See.

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Benedict is now already moving against private revelations in a way his predecessor did not. Two cases signal his intent. Barely a month after his election, the CDF issued two documents. One was a decree removing Father Gino Burresi from active ministry, and the other was a letter to the Filipino bishops effectively declaring as false the claims of Ida Peerdeman, a Dutch seer, that the Virgin Mary had revealed new truths about her status

[...]

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger thought that Burresi was a fraud, was guilty of “pseudo-mysticism” and “asserted apparitions, visions and messages attributed to divine origins”.

The CDF stripped Burresi of the right to hear confessions, preach, give interviews, publish or broadcast.


2,280 posted on 12/19/2006 4:50:37 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex

I never said that Holy See endorsed them.


2,287 posted on 12/19/2006 5:12:15 PM PST by Blogger
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