Why the Vatican declaration on Maria Valtorta has no binding force.

 

The recent document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), issued as a “press release,” makes the unsubstantiated claim that Maria Valtorta’s writings are simply “literary forms” used by the author, and are therefore not supernatural. However the DDF fails to provide any proof or documented facts that her works are just literature.

Further the DDF fails to provide any attempted refutation of the many proofs and documented facts that show that her works must be of supernatural origin.

Therefore the DDF press release can be described as the mere personal opinion of its author(s), since it lacks any supporting evidence. As such it has no binding force on anyone.

No human being, without divine inspiration, could have known so many facts that were presented for the very first time in The Gospel as Revealed to Me (written in the 1940’s), that have since proven to be true by scientists, geologists, Israeli archaeologists, astronomers, historians, ecologists, geographers, linguists and so on.

To dismiss off-hand in a few paragraphs the 15,000 pages written by a bed-ridden Roman Catholic victim soul is an insult to the possibly hundreds of thousands of Valtorta readers throughout the world.

This untruthful and false official Vatican declaration and judgment that Maria's works are not supernatural and divinely inspired, but are simply literature,  cannot go unchallenged. Therefore I hereby petition that this declaration be revoked.

 

DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH

Press Release

Regarding the Writings of Maria Valtorta

 

The Holy See frequently receives requests from both clergy and laity for a clarification about the Church’s position on the writings of Maria Valtorta, such as her work, Il poema dell’Uomo Dio (The Poem of the Man-God), now known by the title, L’Evangelo come mi è stato rivelato (The Gospel as Revealed to Me), and other publications.

 

It should be reiterated that alleged “visions”, “revelations,” and “messages” contained in the writings of Maria Valtorta—or, in any case, attributed to them—cannot be regarded as having a supernatural origin. Rather, they should be considered simply as literary forms that the author used to narrate the life of Jesus Christ in her own way.

 

In its long tradition, the Church does not accept as normative the Apocryphal Gospels and other similar texts since it does not recognize them as divinely inspired. Instead, the Church refers back to the sure reading of the inspired Gospels.

Vatican City, 22 February 2025

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