{"id":4957,"date":"2010-09-23T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/09\/someone-should-alert-cardinal-schonborn.html"},"modified":"2010-09-23T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T13:08:26","slug":"someone-should-alert-cardinal-schonborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/09\/someone-should-alert-cardinal-schonborn.html","title":{"rendered":"Someone should alert Cardinal Schonborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As you know the Church takes great time and care before declaring that an apparition is worthy of belief, and even then it never says that a Catholic must accept the apparition as a matter of faith. We must avoid giving the impression that alleged apparitions about which the Church has not made a judgment are somehow already approved. It is our responsibility to see that our parishioners are not led down the wrong path. That is not to say that those who ask us to promote these matters are doing so out of bad faith, but we must be extremely careful not to confuse our parishioners. Our greatest spiritual treasures are the Word of God, the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, and the teaching of the Church, and our focus should always be there. Needless to say, these comments do not refer to apparitions such as Fatima, Lourdes or Guadalupe which enjoy the approval of the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">&#8212; Bishop Peter Sartain, of Joliet, Illinois, in 2009.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/te-deum.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/medjugorje-rupture-in-tradition-as.html\">Read here for context and background<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As you know the Church takes great time and care before declaring that an apparition is worthy of belief, and even then it never says that a Catholic must accept the apparition as a matter of faith. 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