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Tuesday January 13, 2009
Catholic Church • Mariology:
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.
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Wednesday October 15, 2008
Catholic Church • Mariology:
The Roman Catholic Church has told a disputed visionary to stop disseminating within the Archdiocese of Baltimore messages she purportedly receives from the Virgin Mary.Archdiocese spokesman Sean Caine said O’Brien’s letter was prompted by confusion and anxiety among the faithful stemming from the heightened apocalyptic language in a recent ‘vision’ by Gianna Sullivan.
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Friday May 16, 2008
Catholic Church • Mariology:
Twenty years after a woman said the Virgin Mary appeared to her, hundreds still attend Our Lady of the Rock gatherings in the Mojave. Despite disavowal by the church, followers say they draw comfort.
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Monday May 5, 2008
Catholic Church • Mariology:
Officials at Notre-Dame-du-Laus church say that after four months of daily apparitions starting in May 1664, the Virgin Mary asked Rencurel to build a church and a house to receive priests.
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Friday March 14, 2008
Catholic Church • Mariology • Superstition:
At least 50 people have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary, according to reports.
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Thursday October 25, 2007
Mariology:
An auction for a pebble bearing an apparent image of the Virgin Mary has prompted a miraculous response with bids last night approaching $30,000.
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Tuesday September 25, 2007
Catholic Church • Mariology:
A woman who claims that the Virgin Mary has been appearing in a pine tree at her Surrey home for over 20 years has been dismissed as a fraud by the Vatican.
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Sunday September 23, 2007
Catholic Church • Mariology • Superstition:
A silhouette on a tapestry at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Westchester is drawing throngs of people who believe it is an apparition of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus.
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Wednesday June 20, 2007
Catholic Church • Mariology:
A 17-year-old Benoni girl – who claims to have seen the mother of Jesus – is telling her pilgrims to look into the setting sun to witness a beautiful miracle. But a renowned medical doctor, with a lifetime of experience, says people should never look into the sun with the naked eye.
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Catholic Church • Mariology:
The Catholic Church has told Benoni teenager Francesca Zackey to stop blessing pilgrims after a woman severely damaged her eyes.
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Tuesday April 24, 2007
Catholic Church • Mariology • Offbeat News:
A statue of the Virgin Mary shipped overseas to a Central Florida business has grabbed the attention of the Orlando Catholic Diocese and groups of worshippers after it apparently shed a black tear inside the store.
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Monday January 15, 2007
Mariology • Offbeat News:
It started as one drip from the ceiling of a freezer at Morton Thrifty Foods grocery store. Now it has become quite the sanctuary for a lot of Catholic believers.
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Monday January 1, 2007
Mariology:
Virginia Kimball’s research has plumbed not just scripture but ancient traditions — extra-biblical writings, hymns, and prayers from Christianity’s infancy — to discover what the earliest Christians believed about the woman they considered the mother of God.
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Monday December 18, 2006
Mariology • Superstition:
Holy figures have been perceived in bricks, wooden logs, trees, sandwiches, eggs, a tortilla and so on. The phenomenon is so common that scientists have given it a name: pareidolia, the perception of patterns where none are intended.
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Wednesday December 6, 2006
Mariology:
Drivers zooming by a highway overpass may only see a tree stump, but hundreds of Roman Catholics who believe they see an image of the Virgin Mary there consider it worth a pilgrimage.
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Monday November 13, 2006
Mariology:
Woman claims gold nugget shows virgin Mary holding baby Jesus.
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Monday August 14, 2006
Mariology:
MEXICO, Maine --A Maine woman who discovered an image of the Virgin Mary on a blackened wall following a house fire last winter put the image on eBay after declaring that she had no intention of selling it.
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Monday January 23, 2006
Mariology:
MEXICO — Nestled in a valley on the Androscoggin River, Mexico bills itself as the Gateway to the Western Mountains. Now the town of 3,000 can make another claim to fame: Home of the latest Virgin Mary sighting.
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Monday November 28, 2005
Mariology:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Carrying rosary beads and cameras, the faithful have been coming in a steady stream to a church on the outskirts of Sacramento for a glimpse of what some are calling a miracle: A statue of the Virgin Mary they say has begun crying a substance that looks like blood.
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Wednesday November 16, 2005
Mariology:
COLUMBIA, S.C. - They're wearing "Mary Is My Homegirl" T-shirts
and bracelets, and not all of them are Roman Catholic.
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Thursday July 28, 2005
Mariology:
Thousands of Roman Catholic faithful queued outside a church near Naples yesterday after the congregation reported watching a statue of the Madonna "miraculously" moving in front of them.
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Monday February 14, 2005
Mariology:
Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima, has died, Portuguese media reported. She was 97.
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Wednesday December 15, 2004
Mariology:
When some members of Amor de Dios United Methodist Church in Little Village elected to move a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe into the sanctuary last year, the icon spawned an exodus.
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Thursday August 5, 2004
Mariology:
After finding that a statue of a weeping Virgin Mary was an elaborate hoax, the Catholic Church is investigating another mystery: where is the money donated by the faithful who came to see it?
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Friday July 30, 2004
Mariology:
The Catholic Church has officially declared the oil-seeping and "bleeding" artefacts at the Inala Vietnamese Catholic Centre as fakes.
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