The controversial Vatican decree – long derided as nonexistent – declares that the alleged Lipa apparition ‘turns out not to have a supernatural origin and character’
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The alleged Lipa apparition made headlines after Harriet Demetriou, former justice of the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan, sued a Dominican exorcist priest over the issue in December 2022. Demetriou said Father Winston Cabading – whoand briefly detained in May 2023 – is liable for “offending religious feelings” for discrediting the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1948.
Demetriou, a Marian devotee, has long challenged the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines to produce the Vatican ruling. In response, the Catholic Church has long maintained that the decree exists, but such rulings are not usually published. The Vatican ruling was approved in an audience with Pope Pius XII on March 29, 1951, and was authenticated by the current DDF prefect under Pope Francis, Cardinal Victor Fernandez.The apostolic delegate is to authorize the apostolic administrator to issue a document from the Curia, in which is declared that the events of Lipa, after serious examination, turns out not to have a supernatural origin and character.RULING.
“Today, the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, the Church released finally the documentary proof and truth that, in 1951, the Lipa apparition has been judged ‘not of God‘ by authority of the Supreme Pontiff PP. Pius XII,” Cabading wrote on Facebook.
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