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What Do The New Norms Given by The Vatican Change About the Approval of Marian Apparitions?

Sister Daniela said that “the new norms are useful for Bishops, in the first place, because the more detailed norms make it possible to guide better the path of discernment that the Prelates are called to follow, in communion with the Dicastery. To add to the ‘nihil obstat’ the declaration ‘of supernaturalness,’ “underscores that these phenomena do not become objects of faith, that is, they are not binding for believers. This error has been registered especially in some parts of the world,” she said.

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This Is How the Number of Catholic Legislators Grew in South Korea, After the Last Elections

According to official estimates, half of South Korea’s inhabitants describe themselves as Catholics, and 22.8% of the population is Buddhist. The Christian faith is the most professed in the country: 50% of the believers say they are religious. The Catholic Church has grown faster since the end of the 1980’s decade. South Korea is the second nation with the largest number of missionaries.