Church rejects 'mystic' Gisella Cardia, 'Countdown' favorite

In a specific official document of the Church, which has been known to the bishops since 1978, it is stated that the competent authority for the recognition of an apparition, revelation, or similar event is in the hands of the local bishop.

 

Yikes. It sure does.

 

Another one to scratch off my list of people I read. That is satisfying in a way because we get closer to the ones who may be real. I don't have many at present I think are legit. I do like Jennifer at the moment and love the simplicity and infrequency of the messages.

https://wordsfromjesus.com/

Another I am intrigued by because of the same reasons I like Jennifer is Eduardo Ferreira.

https://en.rosamisticarainhadapaz.com/blank-3

 

It’s also in our Catechism. Thank you HH.

 

Completely agree. Only on God’s time will an apparition be proven true.

 

Yes this is true. A good wine gets better with age, a bad one turns to vinegar.
Or as Rabbie Burns once said.

'Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive'.

 

However there is a problem. False heretical Modernist Bishops will never, ever approve Marian Apparitions true or false. Not even if the Blessed Mother were to appear at the end of their noses.
We saw what they did to Padre Pio.
They don't really believe in God at all. All they believe in is what they see down her below is what they see with their own two eyes. They have no Faith.

As good Catholics we have to be obedient to these awful individuals, but it doesn't mean they always right.

They sit on the Chair of Moses so we must accept their decrees , but that doesn't mean they are always right or just.

But they have the power to require our obedience. At least for now.

When they suppressed Padre Pio I accepted it; I never thought it was right.

The have the power to require our obedience to their orders, it does not mean their orders are always right or just..

Acts 7:52

Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him

 

I suspect they may be right about Gisella Guardia..maybe...but I have no trust in them. However I render them my obedience.

Any Bishop who did not speak out against Fiducia Supplicans how could they be trusted in anything else?

But they do however have my obedience. Obedience , yes, Trust, no. Trust must be earned.
Italian Bishops at the moment?

No.

I don't think so. Zero trust. Let me hear what they had to say about Fiducia Supplicans first.
Or Amoris Laetitia for that matter.

 

There were other things not mentioned in the decree that likely figured into the bishop's decision. An article from The Guardian explains. NOTE: The newspaper uses a different name for Gisella Cardia, but identifies her as Gisella Cardia several paragraphs in.

‘The Saint’ Leaves Italian Town after Case Opened into Statue’s ‘Tears of Blood’
Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla investigated after claim blood stains on statue of Virgin Mary come from a pig

A woman nicknamed “the Saint” has mysteriously vanished from a small lakeside town near Rome where pilgrims have flocked for years to pray before a statue of the Virgin Mary that she claimed shed tears of blood.

Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla, originally from Sicily, and her husband reportedly fled Trevignano Romano last week after a private investigator triggered a judicial investigation against her based on his alleged finding that the blood stains on the statue came from a pig.

The bizarre story began in 2016 when Scarpulla, known to her followers as Gisella Cardia, bought the statue at a Catholic pilgrimage site in Medjugorje, Bosnia. Upon returning to Italy, she claimed the Madonna wept tears of blood and was communicating messages to her.

The statue was placed in a glass case in a park overlooking Lake Bracciano, where on the third day of each month hundreds of pilgrims – many in search of a cure for serious illnesses – would go to pray and hear the latest divine messages received by Scarpulla.

Scarpulla, who in the past had been convicted of bankruptcy fraud, created a foundation through which she collected donations, which she reportedly said would go towards setting up a centre for sick children.

Amid growing media interest in the site – an area of land in the park reportedly bought with donations – and complaints from locals over the monthly influx of pilgrims, a local bishop, Marco Salvi, announced in March that the church would investigate the phenomenon surrounding the Madonna statue.

Suspicions over the claims did not stop an estimated 300 pilgrims from across Italy flocking there on 3 April for the monthly ceremony, during which Scarpulla claimed she had received another message from the Virgin Mary.

“Beloved children, this is the moment and time for choice,” she reportedly said. “I ask you as a grieving mother: choose God. Children, the threads of darkness are gripping you.”

Two days later, the private investigator, Andrea Cacciotti, told the Italian press he had filed a complaint to local police and to prosecutors in the nearby port city of Civitavecchia because “too many people felt they’d been scammed”.

The local Corriere della Sera newspaper reported on Tuesday that prosecutors had started an investigation after complaints from people who allegedly had been scammed.

Cacciotti’s claims that the blood came from a pig are yet to be confirmed. He said he would ask the judiciary to freeze Scarpulla’s accounts.

One man who met Scarpulla for the first time in 2016 told La Repubblica that he and his wife had donated €123,000 to her foundation. “We were both ill, we trusted her, it was a clamorous error,” he said. Another told the newspaper: “At the beginning, I believed her, but then she made me feel scared.”

Scarpulla was reportedly seen packing up her car and leaving Trevignano Romano on Thursday. Some say she has gone abroad, or to her native Sicily, or that perhaps she has sought refuge in a monastery.

A message on her website says meetings with the faithful are “temporarily suspended”.

Her lawyer, Anna Orlando, said she had simply gone on holiday. “This is sensationalism at all costs,” Orlando told Corriere della Sera. “The witch-hunt is galloping and nobody seems willing to ascertain facts. I can only say that we will defend ourselves.”
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