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The TLIG prophetic revelations enjoy the Magisterium's Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat – official ecclesiastic seals of approval.
The Church's Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat are an exercise of the Magisterium.
The Church requires of the Christian faithful “adherence with religious assent”1 to the Church's Magisterium, which is particularly exercised by those bishops teaching in communion with the Pope.
The teachings of those bishops in communion with the Pope and exercising the Magisterium2 have granted to the TLIG prophetic revelations said seals of approval (11/28/2005 Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur) that remain in full force this day.
By virtue of the conferral of the Magisterium's Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat upon the TLIG prophetic revelations, Christians are prohibited from setting themselves up as their judge and from publicly condemning them.3 On the contrary, inasmuch as all Christians are to “concur with their bishop's judgment concerning faith and morals” and “adhere to this” judgment and to the Magisterium “with a religious assent of the mind”,4 the Magisterium's Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat upon the TLIG prophetic revelations elicit from the Christian faithful said religious assent.
Below I elaborate on these five points.
1) The TLIG prophetic revelations enjoy the Magisterium’s Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat – official ecclesiastic seals of approval.
Because the Magisterium of the Church has the duty to “preserve God’s people from deviations and defections, and to guarantee them the objective possibility of professing the true faith without error”,5 as well as “expound it faithfully”,6 it examines publications, particularly works on faith and morals and pronounce whether they are free from doctrinal error.
On November 28, 2005 His Excellency Bishop Felix Toppo, S.J., D.D., granted the Nihil Obstat to the TLIG writings. On November 28, 2005 His Excellency Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles, STL, DD, granted the Imprimatur to the TLIG revelations.
2) The Church’s Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat are an exercise of the Magisterium.
It is noteworthy that the Church’s Magisterium enjoys three gradations of teaching authority which the Christian faithful are to uphold, and which elicit from them respectively the “assent of faith” (the first two gradations of her teaching authority) and “religious assent” (the third gradation of her authority, e.g., to the Magisterium’s Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat).
Of these three levels of magisterial authoritative teaching which establish “the order of the truths to which the believer adheres,”12 there are 1) truths taught as divinely revealed (depositum fidei13),14 2) definitively proposed statements on matters of faith and morals closely connected with the divinely revealed truth,15 and 3) non-definitive teaching that a) aids in the better understanding of the divinely revealed truth and makes explicit its contents, b) recalls how some teaching is in conformity with the truths of faith, or c) guards against ideas that are incompatible with these truths16.
The third category of the Magisterium is non-definitive teaching that serves a) to aid in the better understanding of a divinely revealed truth and make explicit its contents, b) recall how some teaching is in conformity with the truths of faith, or c) guard against ideas that are incompatible with these truths25 (e.g., the Magisterium’s Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat).
is nonetheless an extension of it.” The passage in Lumen Gentium 25 addresses a “religious assent (assensus religious) of mind and will” – required for the third category; it is distinguished from the „assent of faith‟ (assensus fidei) – required for the first and second categories.
3) The Church requires of the Christian faithful „adherence with religious assent‟ to the Church’s Magisterium, which is particularly exercised by those bishops teaching in communion with the Pope.
4) The teachings of those bishops in communion with the Pope and exercising the Magisterium40 have granted to the TLIG prophetic revelations said seals of approval (11/28/2005 Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur) that remain in full force this day.
Insofar as the conferral of the magisterial seals of the Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat upon the TLIG prophetic revelations and the letters of the Bishops who granted them express respectively an approval and guarantee, and a positive judgment on their supernatural nature,44 and the Christian faithful are to concur with their bishop’s judgment, the faithful may confidently approach these as an authentic revelation given by God for our times.
5) By virtue of the conferral of the Magisterium’s Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat upon the TLIG prophetic revelations, Christians are prohibited from setting themselves up as their judge and from publicly condemning them.45 On the contrary, inasmuch as all Christians are to “concur with their bishop's judgment concerning faith and morals” and “adhere to this” judgment and to the Magisterium “with a religious assent of the mind”,46 the Magisterium’s Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat upon the TLIG prophetic revelations elicit from the Christian faithful said religious assent.
annihilated if mankind did not convert, she did so after she made an urgent appeal to the Church and to mankind at a pivotal time in its history. A parallel appeal to the Church and to mankind today is discovered in the ecclesiastically approved True Life in God prophetic revelations. More significantly, the consequences of this appeal, if unheeded, will be global. As a shepherd of souls, I warmly invite all Christians of good will to meditate upon the True Life in God divine revelations for their own spiritual welfare and for the betterment of mankind.
1 Vatican Council II, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (Latin-English edition), vol. II, editor Norman P. Tanner, Lumen Gentium, 25, Sheed and Ward Press, 1990.
2 Catechism of the Catholic Church, art. 892, Vatican City 1994.
3 Cardinal P. Lambertini, De servorum dei beatificatione et canonizatione, III, chapter 53, n.15, Aldima, Prato 1840.
4 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, 25.
5 Op. cit., CCC, art. 890.
6 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Dei Verbum, 10.
7 The commentary of the Code of Canon Law relates: “Approval (approbatio)… signifies that he has found nothing in it which he perceives to be harmful to faith and morals… This approval… informs the prospective reader that the pastor of the church deemed the book not to be a danger to faith and morals. It also permits the book to be… displayed and sold in churches.” (The Commentary in the Code of Canon Law – A Text and Commentary, p. 580, Paulist Press, Mahwah, 1985). Cf. also Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Instruction on Some Aspects of the Use of the Instruments of Social Communication in Promoting the Doctrine of the Faith”, March 30, 1992, in “The Permission to Publish: A Resource for Diocesan and Eparchial Bishops on the Approvals Needed to Publish Various Kinds of Written Works”, Committee on Doctrine - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington D.C. 2004, pp. 34-36..
9 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Instruction on Some Aspects of the Use of the Instruments of Social Communication in Promoting the Doctrine of the Faith”, March 30, 1992, in “The Permission to Publish: A Resource for Diocesan and Eparchial Bishops on the Approvals Needed to Publish Various Kinds of Written Works”, Committee on Doctrine - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington D.C. 2004, p. 35.
10 In 1978 the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith issued “Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceeding in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations,” in which it affirms: “When Ecclesiastical Authority is informed of a presumed apparition or revelation, it will be its responsibility: a) first, to judge the fact according to positive and negative criteria (cf. infra, no. I); b) then, if this examination results in a favorable conclusion, to permit some public manifestation of cult or of devotion, overseeing this with great prudence (equivalent to the formula, „for now, nothing stands in the way‟) (pro nunc nihil obstare); c) finally, in light of time passed and of experience, with special regard to the fecundity of spiritual fruit generated from this new devotion, to express a judgment regarding the authenticity and supernatural character if the case so merits.” (The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith issued “Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceeding in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations”, approved by Pope Paul VI, Preliminary Note, art. 2, a-c, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Rome, 1978).
12 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Doctrinal Commentary on the Concluding Formula of the Professio Fidei,” 4, June 29, 1998, in L’Osservatore Romano Weekly Edition in English, 15 July, 1998.
13 Op. cit., CCC, art. 84.
16 Ibid., 23: “When the Magisterium, not intending to act "definitively", teaches a doctrine to aid a better understanding of Revelation and make explicit its contents, or to recall how some teaching is in conformity with the truths of faith, or finally to guard against ideas that are incompatible with these truths, the response called for is that of the religious submission of will and intellect (LG 25, CIC, 752). This kind of response cannot be simply exterior or disciplinary but must be understood within the logic of faith and under the impulse of obedience to the faith.”.
18 Op. cit., CCC, 891.
19 Op. cit., “Doctrinal Commentary on the Concluding Formula of the Professio Fidei,” 8.
20 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Donum Veritatis, 29.
21 Op. cit., CCC, 892.
22 Op. cit., “Doctrinal Commentary on the Concluding Formula of the Professio Fidei,” 8.
23 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Donum Veritatis, 23; Lumen Gentium, 25.
24 Op. cit., CIC, canon 750, § 2.
25 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Donum Veritatis, 23: “When the Magisterium, not intending to act "definitively", teaches a doctrine to aid a better understanding of Revelation and make explicit its contents, or to recall how some teaching is in conformity with the truths of faith, or finally to guard against ideas that are incompatible with these truths, the response called for is that of the religious submission of will and intellect (LG 25, CIC, 752). This kind of response cannot be simply exterior or disciplinary but must be understood within the logic of faith and under the impulse of obedience to the faith.”.
26 Op. cit., Donum Veritatis, art. 23.
28 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, 25.
29 Op. cit., CCC, art. 892.
30 Cf. op. cit., CIC, canons 23-28.
31 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, 23.
32 Extraordinary Roman Synod of 1985, Final Report II C, 4, Origins 15, Dec. 19, 1985, 448, in Theological Studies, The Teaching Authority of the Episcopal Conferences, Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. (63) 2002, p. 478.
33 Op. cit., Canon 375 §2.
34 Mariology, A Guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians and Consecrated Persons, bearing the Imprimatur of the Most Rev. Raymond L. Burke, and the Nihil Obstat of Fr. Peter Felner, F.I., p. 830, Queenship Pub. CA.
35 Op. cit., CIC, p. 580.
36 Op. cit., “Instruction on Some Aspects of the Use of the Instruments of Social Communication in Promoting the Doctrine of the Faith”, pp. 35-36.
37 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Instruction on Some Aspects of the Use of the Instruments of Social Communication in Promoting the Doctrine of the Faith”, March 30, 1992, in “The Permission to Publish: A Resource for Diocesan and Eparchial Bishops on the Approvals Needed to Publish Various Kinds of Written Works”, Committee on Doctrine - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington D.C. 2004, p. 35.
38 True Life in God, Foundation for the TLIG Pub., November 24, 2005 letter from Bishop Felix Toppo, SJ, DD, Geneva.
40 Op. cit., art. 892.
42 Op. cit., CCC, art. 892.
43 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, 25.
44 Op. cit., “Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceeding in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations”, Preliminary Note, art. 2, a-c.
45 Op. Cit., De servorum dei beatificatione et canonizatione, III, chapter 53, n.15; Op. cit., Mariology, A Guide for Priests Deacons, Seminarians and Consecrated Persons, p. 830.
46 Op. cit., Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium, 25.
47 Op. cit., Mariology, A Guide for Priests Deacons, Seminarians and Consecrated Persons, p. 830.
48 . cit. De servorum Dei beatificatione et canonizatione, III, chapter 53, n.15.
49 The Priest and the Third Christian Millennium Teacher of the Word, Minister of the Sacraments and Leader of the Community, art. 1, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Rome, 1999.
50 Apostolic Letter, Novo Millenio Ineunte, Pope John Paul II, arts. 1, 15, 38, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Rome, 2001.

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