Names / Organisation

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Organisation 11 stories, 1931 to 1994

In the archive's Marian cases, this Vatican body often has the final word. Garabandal, 1969. It backed the local bishop who called the visions an innocent children's game. In 1981 it was unfavorable to the weeping statue events at Akita, though Bishop Ito later recognized them as supernatural. In 2000 it confirmed that nothing supernatural was established at Sabana Grande. December 2015. It reaffirmed the 1951 verdict on the Lipa rose-petal showers, citing the prioress's written confession. The diocesan approval at Betania was never ratified by it.