Pope Set To Hold Press Conference on Apparitions and the Supernatural

The conference is being held to ‘present the new provisions … for discerning between apparitions and other supernatural phenomena.’

AP/Alessandra Tarantino, file
Pope Francis at the Vatican, October 18, 2023. AP/Alessandra Tarantino, file

The Vatican has announced that it will hold a press conference on Friday to discuss “supernatural phenomena,” including apparitions and how the church plans to handle such incidents in the future.

According to a notice on the Vatican’s website, the event will begin at noon and feature three prominent Vatican members. The three include members of the Vatican’s Doctrine of the Faith and the director of the International Observatory for Marian apparitions and mystical phenomena of the Pontifical International Marian Academy.

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