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Authentic apparitions can lead us closer to Christ and his Church. False ones may offer comfort, but often at the cost of unity and obedience.
During the 1990s, I visited two sites where apparitions of the Blessed Mother were alleged but eventually faded after predictions failed to materialize, without requiring Church intervention.
Call me naïve, but I was also faith-filled, believing such things were possible just as pilgrims and doubters alike did when they witnessed the sun dance in the sky in Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917. No one waited for an investigation to see whether the prediction of a “great sign” would really take place.
Eventually, I began looking at false apparitions, wondering what the devil gets out of them. The answer soon became clear: Rejection of Church authority and disobedience. That is his endgame.
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During the 1990s, I visited two sites where apparitions of the Blessed Mother were alleged but eventually faded after predictions failed to materialize, without requiring Church intervention.
Call me naïve, but I was also faith-filled, believing such things were possible just as pilgrims and doubters alike did when they witnessed the sun dance in the sky in Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917. No one waited for an investigation to see whether the prediction of a “great sign” would really take place.
Eventually, I began looking at false apparitions, wondering what the devil gets out of them. The answer soon became clear: Rejection of Church authority and disobedience. That is his endgame.
Necedah’s Condemned Shrine
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What the Devil Gains From False Apparitions
Authentic apparitions can lead us closer to Christ and his Church. False ones may offer comfort, but often at the cost of unity and obedience.
