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Magdala is an archaeological and spiritual place located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel Photo: Magdala Center

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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.