More wisdom from Robert Haddad

Be balanced, in the middle. You can believe something privately, but always with a reservation. Wait until the Church approves. Same with your criticism. You can hold privately the opinion that someone isn’t receiving something from God, but always subject to the Church’s final decision. When I say ‘the Church,’ do I mean necessarily the Pope, and the commission in Rome? Not necessarily. The local church is governed by the local bishop. Ordinarily, it’s for the local bishop to receive any evidence of an alleged apparition, message, allocution, dream, whatever, and for him to set up a commission to examine it. That’s been the case with all the great, approved apparitions of the Church.

—ROBERT HADDAD from Apparitions True and False