Assertion: apparition | /r/HasProperty | approved
Facets:
value: officially
type: MANNER
value: for the entire church
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: A distinction is sometimes made between apparitions that are "Vatican approved" and those that are not.
text: The devotion and apparitions were also authorized and promoted by the next Bishop of Quito, Pedro de Oviedo, who governed the Diocese from 1630 to 1646.
text: If, after an investigation, the bishop determines that the apparition constitutes an authentic supernatural appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary, then the apparition is considered approved for the entire Church, unless his successor or the Holy See were to overturn his decision.
text: In his interview with KAI, Hoser said that at the time “every indication” is that the apparitions will be approved,
text: Eleven members determined that the events at Medjugorje were Non constat de supernaturalitate (i.e., apparitions are neither approved nor condemned, but further study is needed to determine whether a supernatural character is present).
text: If the apparitions were to be approved, if the Catholic Church took “ownership” of the apparitions, the messages of Our Lady would have to be channeled through Church bureaucracy before the faithful could receive them.
text: When was the apparition approved?
text: The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help gained national recognition when the apparitions were approved, after a two-year investigation, by Bishop David Ricken on December 8, 2010, making it the first and only apparition approved by the Catholic Church in the United States.
text: Apparitions in this category would be officially approved or recognized by the church as "worthy of pious belief.
text: The reason that the answer is understandably surprising is that he did in 2007 send a letter to the U.S. bishops explaining Our Lady of America, speaking highly of it, and noting that the devotion connected with it has been approved, but this is not the same as saying that apparition itself is approved.
text: He never says that the apparition itself has been approved.