#12527 La Salette , Mejugorje and More | Ranking Marian Apparitions - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This Catholic Answers Live episode explores how the Church evaluates and ranks Marian apparitions, explaining the official categories used to judge reported visions and whether Catholics are required to believe them. The discussion also examines specific and controversial cases, including Fr. Michel Rodrigue, La Salette, and Medjugorje, helping listeners understand how the Church discerns authenticity, safeguards the faithful, and distinguishes approved devotion from private revelation.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:50 – What categories does the Church classify apparitions into?
- 11:25 – Are we required to believe them?
- 16:19 – Fr. Michel Rodrigue
- 38:31 – La Salette
- 49:05 – Mejugorje
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Happy New Year and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. It's afternoon, so I've already broken most of my New Year's resolutions, |
| 0:37.8 | but maybe some of them will survive until tomorrow. |
| 0:40.1 | Very happy to be here. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you for starting the year with us. |
| 0:43.1 | It's a Marian feast day today. |
| 0:45.4 | It's the Feast of Mary, the Mother of God, and so, and it's the highest form of feast. |
| 0:53.1 | It's a solemnity, So we go to Mass today. |
| 0:56.1 | And we thought, well, you know what? |
| 0:58.3 | Let's make it a Marion show. |
| 0:59.9 | So Marian apparitions, there's a good topic. |
| 1:04.0 | And then we've got Jimmy Aiken, who is the investigator of mysteries. |
| 1:08.3 | As a matter of fact, thousands and thousands of people just love to |
| 1:11.4 | listen to Jimmy investigate mysteries. So we thought, let's ask Jimmy Aiken, what are the most |
| 1:17.2 | credible and maybe some of the most incredible Marian apparitions. So I think we're going to get |
| 1:25.9 | a ranking today from from not so credible to pretty durn credible. |
| 1:32.0 | That's my category. |
| 1:33.2 | I made that pretty darn credible. |
| 1:35.7 | Jimmy Aiken is senior apologist here at Cathayette Gans, who is the author of a whole bunch of books. |
| 1:39.9 | As I said, the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and the Jimmy Aiken podcast, |
| 1:45.0 | Happy New Year, Jimmy. |
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