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A Times UK piece from earlier in the week on recent CDF rulings on apparitions, etc. <\/a><\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

Burresi had founded the Congregation of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary which now numbers 150 priests, including Father Angelo Tognoni, an official in the Vatican Secretariat of State who was often seen by John Paul\u2019s side during the weekly General Audiences in Rome. <\/p>\n

He claimed to have received the stigmata and was compared by his followers to St P\u00eco, a 20th-century monk renowned for his piety. Burresi exuded the \u201codour of sanctity\u201d, it was said, and had the ability to \u201cread souls\u201d and produce works of art miraculously. <\/p>\n

But Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger thought that Burresi was a fraud, was guilty of \u201cpseudo-mysticism\u201d and \u201casserted apparitions, visions and messages attributed to divine origins\u201d. <\/p>\n

The CDF stripped Burresi of the right to hear confessions, preach, give interviews, publish or broadcast. The process had been initiated when Ratzinger was at the CDF, and he made the ruling his own as Pope by confirming it forma specifica<\/em> and denying Burresi any right of appeal. <\/p>\n

Days later the CDF took the unusual step of overruling the decision of Bishop Joseph Maria Punt, of Haarlem in the Netherlands, to approve claims that the Virgin Mary had appeared in Amsterdam under the guise of \u201cLady of All Nations who once was Mary\u201d, sounding the death knell for an international movement to redefine the Virgin as \u201ccoredemptrix, mediatrix and advocate\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The piece speculates…speculates…<\/em>that Medjugorje might next on the list for some kind of definitive statement.<\/p>\n

Via Catholic Light<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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