An interesting question is raised on this blog-site about the Church stance on Nostradamus. Is he a true prophet? The answer is that he is not recognized by the Church. His prophecies have been interpreted as having been right, so far. Is he a "prophet" or not? Easy to answer. I wish to dwell on this subject, since a few days ago, I posted a report on the "prophecy" that had described, and justified the Tsunami 2004 several weeks ahead of it occuring.
What is a prophecy? It is a prediction of the future given by God, which is often made unclear but to an interpreter who is enlightened by the Holy Ghost. This means that the "prophet" usually had no idea of what he or she was "prophesying", and that a third party, or time, help interpreting it.
What is a prophet? The word itself has a lose meaning. There are great prophets such as Jeremiah or Daniel, and also there are the faithful who are said to "prophecies", such as in the Acts, the three daughters of St Philip the Apostle were said to "prophecy". It appears that those early Christians were merely able to see clearly what was happening around them, because they were enlightened by the Holy Ghost, such as Saint John the Baptist, who never made a "prophecy" of the future, but who was able to authenticate Jesus Christ while still in the womb as an unborn-child, and then who paved the way of the Lord by his ministry. Technically St. John the Baptist was not a "prophet", but was nevertheless named the greatest prophet of all time by Our Lord. It appears that the definition of a "prophet" is simply to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Once the faithful is "filled with the Holy Ghost", while also having a near perfect love for Jesus and Mary (also of the Catholic Faith as defined by the Athanesian Creed), then the faithful may start "prophecizing", which means to either be able to see clearly, or, if God wants, occasionally to predict the future. Saint Terese of Avila was therefore a "prophet" while at her time an other woman in Spain was seen as a prophet. This said woman was an impostor who later confessed to have sold her soul to the devil. She ended-up losing the Catholic Faith, and became a Protestant.
That say, it appears that Nostradamus was not a genuine Catholic, for example he was buried in a very strange way, and also he had pronounced a curse to whoever will desecrate his tomb, a prediction that proved right. Those are the probable reasons why the Church does not recognized him as a prophet. The prophecies of Nostradamus should therefore not come from God but from the devil. The devil is able to deduct the future in a better way than man, but those "prophecies" are impostures.
To-day, the Internet is filled with false-prophets. Those lads are so many that they could almost form their own union! The real "prophets" are simply genuine lovers of Jesus Christ and of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In my case of posting the report of a past "prophecy" of the Tsunami 2004 (please see FAMINE AND WAR), the question may be tricky. The Tsunami occurred, but also the devil might have vaguely known ahead of time. The "prophecy" (of the Tsunami) had come from a cluster of letters, built around a single letter that spelled the description of a Mozart Mass. The author of those letters was not aware of what was metaphorically described, but was simply disquieted before, and after this particular Mass.
The infernal nature of this Mozart Mass was only revealed to me, a mere writing hand, only a few days ago. I believe that the Tsunami 2004 was announced by God to this fellow who I name Church Militant, because this said fellow, although being imperfect in many ways, loves Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and is faithful to the Catholic Faith as defined by the Athanesian Creed. The Church of Saint Dominic where this Mozart Mass was said, is not "evil" although Novæ Ordo, because it has not totaly embraced the spirit of V2. For example, it is still praying the 15 decades of the Rosary, and has not caved-in to the devotion of the Christ of the Divine Mercy (an Antichrist). There is no doubt that God was sensitive to the infernal nature of this particular Mozart Mass. The Church of Saint Dominic in San Francisco is reputable; it has its own cloister. It is no average "new-Church" parish where Pastor Billy-Bob and his altar-girls say Clown-Mass, or perform Dance-Mass that mimic copulation, and where God seems to not care any longer!
Nostradamus might have made some fulfilled prophecies, but was apparently not a genuine Catholic, which makes him a false-prophet, while the fellow who I name Church Militant, who is a faithful, was merely used by God to make a prophecy that was not thought of. This said fellow prophesied in the same way as the early Christians, while Nostradamus apparently became a prophet out of a pact made with the devil.
The fruit of a prophecy is to warn the faithful in order to keep them in line. The prophecies of Nostradamus do not do such a thing as saving the faith, but only fill the ego of the writer, perhaps fill his belly, and to inflate the self-importance of Satan.