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Learn more at real estate for life.org. Welcome back to Catholic answers live. Jimmy Aikens, our guests, it's asking me anything.

And all the lines are full right now. I am Cy Kelly, your host.

And you know what, Jimmy, I saw there as news and it's related to something you have talked about on this show and I don't think anyone else has talked about is that document that came out, the Vatican document on kind of how to proceed when there are claims of apparitions and

supernatural things and now there's some news based on that from Medigoria and

I think that's what a lot of people have been waiting for so can you kind of run us through what what that's all about what was said?

So first of all for more information I wrote a piece about this for the National Catholic

Register they asked me to do a piece on it for

him. So you can read that for more detail. But basically, what I suspected might happen did happen.

After the announcement of the new norms for evaluating reports of private apparitions, they took the Cardinal Fernandez was asked if you know they were going to do Magigoria and he said at the time well I haven't

reviewed that material yet but it we should be able to proceed to a decision now.

And even though one of the now seven categories

for classifying reports of an apparition sounded like it was tailor made for

for Medigoria. He kind of went in a different direction.

He raised the possibility of giving it what's called a Nehel Obstadt, which means nothing obstructs

the faithful from having a devotion to this, but with some clarifications.

And that's what they did.

So Anihil Obstadt is now the highest ruling, the most positive ruling that can be given to an apparition without the

direct intervention of the Pope. What a Nejalabstat does not do is pass any

judgment on is this genuinely supernatural or not.

And so the Vatican has not made a ruling on are the reported apparitions at Medigoria

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