An observatory that is part of the Pontifical Marian Academy will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting the various cases of apparitions, tears, inner locutions, stigmata and other mystical phenomena that have taken place or are in progress, reported the Vatican News Press Agency.

“The goal we have set for ourselves – explains Father Stefano Cecchin (Ofm), President of PAMI – to provide concrete support for the study, authentication and correct disclosure of these facts, always in accordance with the Church’s Magisterium, the competent authorities and the regulations in force by the Holy See on this subject.

The Observatory of the Catholic Church will operate in a systematic, strategic, multidisciplinary and qualified manner, also in collaboration with experts and researchers, eminent personalities in the scientific field and ecclesiastical authorities.

Cecchin said it’s important to clarify because the alleged messages often create confusion, spread disturbing apocalyptic scenarios or even accusations against the pope and the church. In the same way, it is important to provide training support, because the management of certain files requires adequate preparation”.

Statue of the Virgin of La Dolorosa in La Libertad is said to have shed tears during the procession

Local scientific committees will soon also be set up, in the logic of an operational network that can extend its radius of action.

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According to the Mariologist father Gian Matteo Roggio only in Italy “there are about a hundred phenomena constantly that the church is watching.”

The new observatory was born amid controversy over a statue of the Virgin Mary in the Italian town of Trevignano that supposedly performs miracles, weeps blood and multiply the gnocchi and pizza. However, reports Preliminary evidence indicates that the alleged tears would actually be pig blood.