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Well, looks like the Pope is retracting more than a few things, now they are backing away from the apparitions that have been claimed of Jesus. Catholics believe that figures such as Jesus and Mary can appear supernaturally, known as apparitions, to share religious messages, inspire devotion, or call for peace. But now the Pope seems to be taking steps in backing away from this long held conviction...

"Jesus may answer prayers but he has not made special appearances in a small town in the north of France, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

In a new instruction approved by Pope Leo, the Vatican's top doctrinal office said stories of appearances by Jesus in the town of Dozule, in Normandy, were not to be considered genuine by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

A Catholic mother in the town had reported seeing Jesus 49 times during the 1970s, and said he had dictated a series of messages and told her to build a 7.38-metre (24.21-foot) cross on a hillside in the town.

"The phenomenon of the alleged apparitions ... is to be regarded, definitively, as not supernatural in origin, with all the consequences that flow from this determination," said the text issued by the doctrinal office.

Catholics believe religious figures such as Jesus and Mary can make supernatural appearances, called apparitions, to offer religious messages, create new devotional practices or make general appeals for peace.

The Vatican has a formal evaluation process for assessing claimed appearances, and it warns against use of alleged phenomena for monetary gain.

The Vatican also recently issued a decree clarifying the titles Catholics can use for Mary. That text said Mary cannot be called the "co-redeemer" of the world, since Catholics believe Jesus alone redeemed humanity by his crucifixion and death."
https://www.reuters.com/world/jesus-did-not-appear-hill-france-vatican-says-2025-11-12/

Lets see if they begin to back away from some of their blasphemous claims...

[Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church (both the Latin and Eastern Catholic[1][2] churches) which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope when he speaks ex cathedra is preserved from the possibility of error on doctrine "initially given to the apostolic Church and handed down in Scripture and tradition".]

Quote from: Hobie on Wed Nov 12, 2025 - 14:44:35Well, looks like the Pope is retracting more than a few things, now they are backing away from the apparitions that have been claimed of Jesus. Catholics believe that figures such as Jesus and Mary can appear supernaturally, known as apparitions, to share religious messages, inspire devotion, or call for peace. But now the Pope seems to be taking steps in backing away from this long held conviction...

"Jesus may answer prayers but he has not made special appearances in a small town in the north of France, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

In a new instruction approved by Pope Leo, the Vatican's top doctrinal office said stories of appearances by Jesus in the town of Dozule, in Normandy, were not to be considered genuine by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

Not backing away from the apparitions but claiming to be the final authority on the which it or is not a apparition (figment of ones imagination) .

Jesus performed the ultimate test 40 days with food .Having become delirious in that weakened state the guessing god Satan--- not subject to the gospel understanding hid in parables  Proved he can only guess .

If you are the Son of God then you will obey my will and turn stone into bread in order to satisfy your dying starving hunger .

Three times to denote the end of a matter in parable. The Holy Father gave living word to Jesu the Son his apostle he prophesied as it is written sola scriptura again and again .struck him out Never saw the faith of Christ ball coming. Retuned to the lying Rookie back to bottomless dugout .End of world series. . .LOL

Apparitions the power of the king of lying signs to wonder, wonder, marvel  after just as if God was still being new prophecy .


The wondering needed to draw to the living word is hid in parable the spirit understanding is hid from the guessing god Satan.


Ezekiel 20:48-49King James Version And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?


Matthew 13:34All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

Mark 4:11And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables (they receive no spiritual understanding)

Because Parable give us the unseen eternal undestanding it would seem mankind even believers shy away and rather do look to the lying signs by which some wonder .I would suggest have no fear searching out the hidden.

Might be easier to chose the world that do cause wonderment though lying signs as if God was still adding to sola scriptura.

He working with us gives us the mixing tools needed to rightly divide the parables. Just dig a little deeper as for silver or gold Might find the pearl of good price . . the salvation of our new born again soul .

QuoteThe Romish Church now presents a fair front to the world, covering with apologies her record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed herself in Christ-like garments; but she is unchanged. Every principle of popery that existed in past ages exists today. The doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still held. Let none deceive themselves. The popery that Protestants are now so ready to honor is the same that ruled the world in the days of the Reformation, when men of God stood up, at the peril of their lives, to expose her iniquity. She possesses the same pride and arrogant assumption that lorded it over kings and princes, and claimed the prerogatives of God. Her spirit is no less cruel and despotic now than when she crushed out human liberty, and slew the saints of the Most High.

Popery is just what prophecy declared that she would be, the apostasy of the latter times. [2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4.] It is a part of her policy to assume the character which will best accomplish her purpose; but beneath the variable appearance of the chameleon, she conceals the invariable venom of the serpent. "We are not bound to keep faith and promises to heretics," she declares. Shall this power, whose record for a thousand years is written in the blood of the saints, be now acknowledged as a part of the church of Christ?

(The Great Controversy, 1888 ed., Chapter 35—Character and Aims of the Papacy, pgs. 570-571)