The Vatican allows only the private cult of alleged Marian appearances in Italy

The Vatican’s doctrinal office expressed its reservations about an alleged place of Marian appearances in southern Italy, allowing only private cult and warning that the statements that a deceased woman has communicated messages through a guardian angel “require greater study.”

Sant’onofrio is a mountain in the Molise region, in southern Italy, near the city of Agnone. Since 2009, a resident of the area, Michelino Marcovecchio, claims to have received visions and messages from the Virgin Mary.

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He has also claimed to hear the voice of his late mother -in -law, Livia Casciano, through his guardian angel.

In a letterthe dicas supplies for the doctrine of faith (DDF) granted the alleged supernatural experiences in Mount Sant’onofrio a judgment of in comparison with the eyeswhich means that there are “important positive signals”, but “some aspects of confusion or potential risk are also perceived,” and “doctrinal clarification” may be necessary.

The DDF declared that “private cult is allowed”, including personal visits in pairs or in small groups to the cross or the crucis road on Mount Sant’onofrio.

However, acts of public worship are not allowed, such as pilgrimages, pastoral events or the celebration of masses in places linked to the alleged spiritual experiences. Nor can information about the phenomenon and its supposed messages be disseminated without the approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.

In a letter addressed to Mons. Camillo Cibotti, Bishop of Iernia-Venafro and Trivento, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the DDF, wrote that the content of some of the messages received by Marcovecchio is valuable and that there are “signs of the action of the Holy Spirit in the midst of this supposed supernatural phenomenon”.

However, he added, “some aspects of confusion or potential risks are also perceived that require that the diocesan bishop perform a careful discernment and dialogue with the recipients of a certain spiritual experience.”

The cardinal also caught attention to two aspects of the alleged manifestations that require special care from the bishop.

In the first place, some members of the local clergy had not observed the decision of the previous bishop to prohibit any form of public or private worship related to the alleged appearances, and even seemed to urge disobedience.

The second possible problem was the “unusual fact that, it is said, some souls of deceased manifest the alleged seer by the work of his guardian angel.”

Cardinal Fernández said that the alleged apparitions experienced in Mount Sant’onofrio follow the teaching of the Church about the relationship between the living and the dead, but “in a way that demonstrates its originality with respect to the spiritual tradition and that, therefore, it would require greater study.”

The Prefect invited the Bishop to ensure that those who follow and promote spiritual experiences in Mount Sant’Onofrio keep in mind “that the line between lawful and risky practices is quite thin.”

Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.

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