(The previous post on the health status of Conchita and Mari Loli was mine. I forgot to enter my user name.)

flatbed, Garabandal has not been approved or condemned by the Church. A brief summary is this: The bishop at the time (´60s) was very biased against it, and told everyone to shut up about it (literally).

A more recent bishop apparently came to believe in it, but when he consulted with the Vatican, the bureaucrats there essentially told him not to disagree too obviously with his own predecessor. Consequently, this bishop did not publish an approval of the vision, though he did allow priests to visit and say Mass there.

Still more recently, another bishop (perhaps the current one) is again biased against it. Oy!

Why do I use the word "biased"? Because the vision has many miracles and other unexplained events associated with it; other mystics, including St. Padre Pio, assured the faithful that the Garabandal vision was real; and all bishops admit that everything "taught" at Garabandal is in harmony with Church teaching.

So what do some bishops not like about the Garabandal vision? The Garabandal message specifically says:

"Many cardinals, many bishops and many priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them."

To us in the USA, this statement is obviously true--who could disagree? But apparently, Spanish bishops don´t like the sound of it.

Ironically, the vision of Akita, fully approved by the Catholic Church, says almost the same thing:

"The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres (other priests). Churches and altars will be sacked. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord."