Dubious apparition website 'Countdown to the Kingdom' (CTTK) is obviously getting edgy about recent criticisms regarding its work. But in trying to defend itself, it has unwittingly revealed that although it claims to accept the declarations of legitimate ecclesiastical authority - it appears not to, and goes on arguing the case for the authenticity of the alleged seers, which if CTTK were obeying Church teaching, it simply wouldn't do. One example (out of quite a few):
Bishop Marco Salvi of Civita Castellana, the diocese that includes Trevignano Romano, said that he had established a commission of experts in theology, canon law and psychology in April 2023 to investigate the claims of one Gisella Cardia (a.k.a. Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla) who was claiming to have apparitions of Our Lady, after a visit to Medjugorje. And on March 6th 2024, the diocese published its results, decreeing a “constat de non supernaturalitate,” verdict: (the non-supernaturality has been proven).
Yet since then …More