ROME — When is a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary actually a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary?
Any longer for the Roman Catholic Church, solely the Vatican decides — and such occasions will very not often, if ever, be declared “supernatural.”
With the backing of Pope Francis, the Vatican on Friday issued sweeping new pointers on unexplained non secular phenomena. The rules, the primary since 1978, mirror a need to root out fraudsters and flights of fancy and to handle how 1.4 billion Catholics ought to view the magical aspect of their religion in a digital age supercharged by synthetic intelligence.
