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Join John Carpenter, Donald Hartley, and the Deeper Truth Research team as they continue to review Our Lady's predictions for the world.
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) affirmed his position on 13 March 1957 and again on 24 May 1972 and 25 May 1974.\
On 31 May 1996, Bishop Hendrik Bomers, with permission of the CDF 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.
In a letter dated August 8, 2005, the secretary of the CDF acknowledged that "the said apparitions have received approval from His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph Maria Punt
yer associated with the apparition be edited, replacing the words "who once was Mary" with "the Blessed Virgin Mary" The aforementioned Doctrinary Dicastery pointed out that the Notification published on 25 May 1974, available on its web page, is still valid today.It states that, after suitable study, "it did not consist of the supernatural nature of the apparitions". Therefore, the faithful are invited to "cease all propaganda about the alleged apparitions and revelations of the 'Lady of all Nations', and urged "to express their devotion to the Virgin saint as Queen of the Universe