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The Vatican declares that it can no longer confirm the supernatural... but you can worship it anyway. (apnews.com)
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The new norms reframe the Catholic Church’s evaluation process by essentially taking off the table whether church authorities will declare a particular vision, stigmata or other seemingly divinely inspired event supernatural.

Instead, the new criteria envisages six main outcomes, with the most favorable being that the church issues a noncommittal doctrinal green light, a so-called “nihil obstat.” Such a declaration means there is nothing about the event that is contrary to the faith, and therefore Catholics can express devotion to it.

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The norms also allow that an event might at some point be declared “supernatural,” and that the pope can intervene in the process. But “as a rule,” the church is no longer in the business of authenticating inexplicable events or making definitive decisions about their supernatural origin.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

If I'm reading it correctly, they realized that with smartphones and the internet any/everyone can plainly see these miracles are fake, so they're proactively sidestepping the entire thing.