--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> Since stories about the Vatican have been in
> the air on FFL today, here´s another one.
>
> For personal reasons having to do with my
> interest in the medieval period, I follow
> the history of the Office of the Holy
> Inquisition with some interest. It lasted
> for *600 years* and was only eliminated
> from the Church in 1950. It was *brought
> back* to the Church by the current Pope,
> when he was still a Cardinal. I´ve been
> watching to see what he would do with the
> renamed Inquisition ever since. This article
> is about one of the first things he intends
> to do with it -- silence those who report
> visions and miracles. Fascinating how sim-
> ilar it is to how the TMO treats those who
> claimm to have achieved the goals that the
> TMO sells (e.g., enlightenment), and talk
> about those claims openly.
>
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/catholics-forced-to-keep_n_157422.html
>
> Catholics Forced To Keep Quiet Over Virgin Visions
> The Independent | Jerome Taylor and Simon Caldwell
>
> Catholics who claim they have seen the Virgin Mary will be forced to
> remain silent about the apparitions until a team of psychologists,
> theologians, priests and exorcists have fully investigated their
> claims under new Vatican guidelines aimed at stamping out false claims
> of miracles.
>
> The Pope has instructed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
> Faith, formerly the Holy Office of the Inquisition, to draw up a new
> handbook to help bishops snuff out an explosion of bogus heavenly
> apparitions.
>
> Benedict XVI plans to update the Vatican's current rules on
> investigating apparitions to help distinguish between true and false
> claims of visions of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, messages, stigmata
> (the appearances of the five wounds of Christ), weeping and bleeding
> statues and Eucharistic miracles.
>
> Monsignor Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, a respected Spanish Jesuit
> archbishop, has been placed in charge of drawing up the handbook,
> known as a "vademecum", which will update the current rules set in 1978.
>
> According to Petrus, an Italian online magazine which leans towards
> conservative elements in the Vatican, anyone who claims to have seen
> an apparition will only be believed as long as they remain silent and
> do not court publicity over their claims. If they refuse to obey, this
> will be taken as a sign that their claims are false.
>
> The visionaries will then be visited by a team of psychiatrists,
> either atheists or Catholics, to certify their mental health while
> theologians will assess the content of any heavenly messages to see if
> they contravene Church teachings.
>
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Maybe they are having a problem with stuff they can't censor?
