Maria Valtorta (1897–1961) was an Italian Catholic mystic who was bedridden for more than 30 years and claimed to have received visions and revelations from Jesus and the Virgin Mary, which she related in extensive writing. The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said in a Feb. 22, 2025, press release that the messages contained in her writing “cannot be considered to be of supernatural origin.” / Credit: Public domain
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 6, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA).
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said that messages contained in the writings of Maria Valtorta (1897–1961), an Italian Catholic mystic, “cannot be considered to be of supernatural origin.”
In a press release dated Feb. 22, the Vatican dicastery noted that the Holy See “frequently receives requests from both clergy and laypeople for clarification on the Church’s position” regarding Valtorta’s writings.
