What happens when something called a miracle turns out to be an error or a fraud?

🔥The question: “If the Church was fooled, won't it keep covering it up to save face?”

🛡️The Church's answer: It must not be covered up. If new evidence reveals a natural cause, false testimony, financial manipulation, or abuse, the investigation has to be reopened, public devotion restricted or forbidden, and the mistaken account corrected. The 2024 norms also provide for a conclusion that a phenomenon is not supernatural, and for a negative conclusion where there is manifest intent to deceive. Where there is a crime or a victim, it must not end with an internal Church judgment: the Church has to cooperate with the public investigation and with the protection of the victim.

📜What the Church has actually recognized: The fact that a devotion was permitted in the past is not a license to ignore new evidence. Conversely, some frauds being exposed doesn't automatically make every miracle claim false, so each case is judged responsibly on its own.

🧐If they press further: “Doesn't admitting you may have recognized something wrongly make faith collapse?” — Hiding the truth destroys trust far more. The center of faith is Jesus Christ, not the reputation of an investigating commission.

✨In one sentence: “When an error or a fraud comes to light, the judgment has to be corrected and the harm put right. Truth and people's safety come before face.”