US EditionMadonna of Monte Sant’Onofrio: only private devotion permitted
MOUNT SANT’ONOFRIO, AGNONE, MOLISE, ITALY, JUL 29 – The Vatican allows only private devotion at Mount Sant’Onofrio due to concerns over confusion and improper worship, while recognizing positive spiritual signs, Cardinal Fernández said.
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History can tear off some perplexed smile, if not because hundreds of Italian Catholics have taken it quite seriously and pilgrimage to the mountain where since 2010 Michelino Marcovecchio has had apparitions of the Virgin, her mother-in-law and a teenager who died in a traffic accident. This week the Vatican has elegantly praised some "positive elements of the alleged supernatural phenomenon" but has invited caution and has not given its author…
Vatican OKs only private devotion for alleged Mount St. Onofrio apparitions
The Vatican’s doctrinal office has issued a mixed opinion on alleged Marian apparitions that have occurred in Southern Italy, allowing private acts of devotion but no public worship at the site.Mount St. Onofrio. Credit: Madonna del monte Sant'Onofrio / Facebook.Subscribe nowAfter examining the alleged apparitions at Mount St. Onofrio, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith determined that “there are several positive aspects and signs of th…
Vatican permits exclusively private devotion for alleged apparitions at Italian mountain
The Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio, the seat of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. / Credit: Jim McIntosh via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0) Vatican City, Jul 29, 2025 / 10:47 am (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrinal office has expressed reservatio... [...]
The Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith confirms the application of the formula prae oculis habeatur, proposed by the Bishop of the Diocese of Trivento in reference to alleged supernatural phenomena on Monte Sant'Onofrio in Agnone, Molise. The spiritual experience related to the alleged supernatural phenomena, centered primarily on Monte Sant'Onofrio in Agnone, Molise (Italy), has been covered by the Dicastery for the Doctrine…
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