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Baltimore Archbishop Tells "Visionary" to Stop

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore has told a Pennsylvania woman to stop disseminating messages that she claims she receives from the Virgin Mary.

The warning in a pastoral advisory from Archbishop Edwin O'Brien marks an escalation of the church's efforts to silence Gianna Sullivan of rural Fairfield, Pa. It warns Sullivan not to talk or write about the alleged apparitions anywhere within the archdiocese, which includes Baltimore City and nine Maryland counties.

The archdiocese concluded in 2000 that the alleged visions were not divine and barred Sullivan from delivering them at an Emmitsburg church. The Vatican upheld that decision in 2003.

Sullivan now delivers her messages at monthly gatherings at a conference center in Frederick County.

MyFox Washington DC | Baltimore Archbishop Tells "Visionary" to Stop

What I want to know is how the Vatican arrived at this conclusion.
 
Because they were not subject to Catholic investigation, via Catholic "methods"... whatever those are.
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
she can do it all she wants, as long as she does not claim to be catholic.
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Is she Catholic? Generally only Catholics or Eastern Orthodox would claim to get getting visions from the VIrgin Mary. The Catholic Church can do no more than excommunicate her if she continues to defy Church orders.
 
As far as I am concerned; As long as she does not represent them as being Catholic visions, but her own, the Catholic church has no business telling her what she can not do off of it's property, regardless if she is a parishioner or not.
 
Even if she did claim to be catholic, they still couldn't do anything about it.
 
Good for them. Obviously only a select few are privy to the special direct Divine Messages From Heaven hotline and this woman certainly isn't one of them.
 
Quote(she can do it all she wants, as long as she does not claim to be catholic
Actually she do this irrespective of whether she claims to be Catholic.
The only action the HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH can take is the extreme of excommunicating her.
Which action is pretty pointless in the eyes of God, as only God knows whether she is actually seeing what she claims to see.
I would guess that as the German Pope cannot make money out of whatever is going on, he naturally agrees with his subordinate.
I am neither an Atheist nor an Agnostic, I do however choose not to believe in the rubbish the various religions preach.
 
dclxvinoise said:
Good for them. Obviously only a select few are privy to the special direct Divine Messages From Heaven hotline and this woman certainly isn't one of them.
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You can't have a Catholic running around telling everybody that they can communicate with God. If a Catholic said something so ridiculous people would stop taking the church seriously
 
And yet 3 young children did just this in Portugal in the early 1900s.
 
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