{"id":76846,"date":"2016-06-04T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=76846"},"modified":"2016-06-04T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T08:00:41","slug":"vatican-ruling-marian-apparition-lipa-city-60-years-ago-no-supernatural-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/06\/04\/vatican-ruling-marian-apparition-lipa-city-60-years-ago-no-supernatural-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican ruling: Marian apparition in Lipa City over 60 years ago has \u201cno supernatural origin\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76847\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AMDG_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76847\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AMDG_2.jpg\" alt=\"The Marian Apparition in 1948 has been enshrined in a monastery church in Lipa, Batangas.  (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AMDG_2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AMDG_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AMDG_2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marian Apparition in 1948 has been enshrined in a monastery church in Lipa, Batangas.<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Lady_Mediatrix_of_All_Graces\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 A Catholic Church official said they will follow the decision of the Vatican on the Marian apparition which happened over 60 years ago in Lipa City, Batangas.<\/p>\n<p>According to Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) President Archbishop Socrates Villegas they will obey what the Holy See has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRome has spoken. The case is closed. We all obey. We always obey the Holy See,\u201d he said in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican has issued a decree stating that the apparition of the Virgin Mary to a Carmelite nun, Teresita Castillo or Teresina, at the Carmelite monastery in Lipa, Batangas in 1948, has no \u201csupernatural origin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lipa Bishops Mariano Gavial and Ramon Arguelles have both declared that the Marian apparition was worthy of belief.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Curia sent a communique to the Lipa Diocese reiterating that Pope Pius XII already ruled in 1951 that the apparition has no supernatural origin or that no miracle occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer being the mother of Jesus is our first and constant reason for honoring her,&#8221; Villegas said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lingayen-Dagupan prelate added, \u201cWe do not need apparitions to honor the Blessed Virgin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 A Catholic Church official said they will follow the decision of the Vatican on the Marian apparition which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[11046],"class_list":["post-76846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-marian-apparition-in-lipa-city","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}