Jesus did not appear to a woman in Dozulé, France, in the 1970s and the messages she claimed to receive, including about Jesus’s second coming, are misleading and twist central Christian teachings, the Vatican has announced. Source: Catholic Review.
“The phenomenon of the alleged apparitions said to have taken place in Dozulé is to be regarded, definitively, as not supernatural in origin,” Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote in a letter confirming the judgment of Bishop Jacques Habert of Bayeux-Lisieux, the local bishop.
The letter, presented to Pope Leo XIV on November 3, was published on the Vatican website yesterday.
The apparitions were reported by Madeleine Aumont, a Catholic mother of five, who claimed to have seen Jesus and received messages from him four dozen times between 1972 and 1978.
A key part of the message was that he allegedly wanted a 24-foot-tall cross to be erected outside the town and supposedly said that it would have the same power as the cross on which he was crucified in Jerusalem.
But, Cardinal Fernández wrote, “that wood, raised upon Calvary, has become the real sign of Christ’s sacrifice, which is unique and unrepeatable”.
“For this reason, every other ‘sign’ of the cross – whether devout or monumental – cannot be considered on the same plane,” he said. “Thus, it seems misleading, both theologically and pastorally-symbolically, to compare ‘the Glorious Cross’ of Dozulé to the Cross of Jerusalem.”
Some of the alleged messages, the cardinal said, say that the construction of “the Glorious Cross” is “necessary for the salvation of the world” or is “a privileged means of obtaining universal forgiveness and peace”.
However, “the Catholic faith teaches that the power of the cross does not need to be replicated, for it is already present in every Eucharist, in every church, in every believer who lives united to the sacrifice of Christ,” Cardinal Fernández wrote.
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Alleged apparitions of Jesus in Dozulé, France, not supernatural, Vatican says (By Cindy Wooden, CNS via Catholic Review)
