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The Catholic Defender: The Virgin saint Queen of the Universe. The Catholic Defender: On Thursday, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith made public the negative and definitive 1974 judgment of its Cardinal Members, who unanimously agreed to declare the non-supernaturality of the alleged apparitions of "Our Lady of All Nations" of Amsterdam. The decision was approved by Pope Paul VI.
Bishop Johannes Huibers, who was bishop of Haarlem while the apparitions were taking place, gave his approval (nihil obstat) to the title and the prayer associated with the apparition.
On 7 May 1956, Bishop Huibers, following on a careful examination of the case concerning the supposed apparitions and revelations of 'Our Lady of All Nations', declared that he 'found no evidence of the supernatural nature of the apparitions'"
On 31 May 1996, Bishop Hendrik Bomers, with permission of the CDF,[18] permitted public veneration using the title, prayer, and image, while maintaining that the question of the supernatural character of the apparitions themselves was unresolved and left to the judgment of one's own conscience.
On 31 May 2002, Bishop Jozef Marianus Punt, Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam, declared the apparitions themselves to be of supernatural origin.