Vatican About to Impose Strict New Rules On Visionaries

Well this seems to be significant. The Deacon's Bench has the story at Seeing Mary? Keep it to yourself


Basically we learn that the "The Pope is said to be deeply concerned by the explosion in the number of pseudo-mystics who, claiming a direct line to God, set themselves against the bishops and lure the Catholic faithful out of the Church and into disobedient cults"

What are the reported new rules?

Catholics who claim they have seen the Virgin Mary will be forced to remain silent about the apparitions until a team of psychologists, theologians, priests and exorcists have fully investigated their claims under new Vatican guidelines aimed at stamping out false claims of miracles.The Pope has instructed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Holy Office of the Inquisition, to draw up a new handbook to help bishops snuff out an explosion of bogus heavenly apparitions.Benedict XVI plans to update the Vatican's current rules on investigating apparitions to help distinguish between true and false claims of visions of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, messages, stigmata (the appearances of the five wounds of Christ), weeping and bleeding statues and Eucharistic miracles.

More at his post

See comment 3 though where one poster is saying this "new news" is about 6 months old.

In the end I suspect this a good thing. Espcially since the history channel every night is talking 2012, killer comets , the Mayans, the Hopi , and everyone else that predicts big things in 2012. I suspect the world is going to be a tad on edge.

However I give the common this is in a UK paper warning which at times tends to be a little sensational with the facts as to reporting on Catholic Church so we shall see.