From Rappler.com:
The Archdiocese of Lipa announced on Tuesday, March 19, that the Vatican has revealed a controversial 1951 decree declaring there was nothing supernatural in an alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary in Lipa, Batangas.
Devotees have long claimed that the Vatican decree is nonexistent, while the Catholic Church has declined to publish the document – until recently. The alleged Lipa apparition made headlines after Harriet Demetriou, former justice of the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan, sued a Dominican exorcist priest over the issue in December 2022. Demetriou said Father Winston Cabading – who was arrested and briefly detained in May 2023 – is liable for “offending religious feelings” for discrediting the reported apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1948. One of the arguments cited by Demetriou is that, contrary to the claims of the Lipa apparition’s critics, there is no Vatican decree dated March 29, 1951 declaring that the alleged apparition was not supernatural.