{"id":66568,"date":"2024-03-19T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=66568"},"modified":"2024-04-09T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:20:16","slug":"vatican-reveals-1951-decree-rejecting-lipa-apparition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/vatican-reveals-1951-decree-rejecting-lipa-apparition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Reveals 1951 Decree Rejecting \u2018Lipa Apparition\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Rappler.com:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/tachyon\/2024\/03\/vatican-decree-lipa-apparition-3.jpg\" alt=\"Vatican reveals 1951 decree rejecting \u2018Lipa apparition\u2019\" width=\"597\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Devotees have long claimed that the Vatican decree is nonexistent, while the Catholic Church has declined to publish the document \u2013 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 \u2013 who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/why-exorcist-priest-winston-cabading-arrested-offending-religious-feelings\/\">was arrested<\/a> and briefly detained in May 2023 \u2013 is liable for \u201coffending religious feelings\u201d 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\u2019s critics, there is no Vatican decree dated March 29, 1951 declaring that the alleged apparition was not supernatural.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"apparitions\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1710838714\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Vatican Reveals 1951 Decree Rejecting \u2018Lipa Apparition\u2019\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rappler.com: The Archdiocese of Lipa announced on Tuesday, March 19, that the Vatican has revealed a controversial 1951 decree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-apparitions","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}