Here we are not one week out of Good Friday and Easter, and so much energy spent on personal revelations of Maria Valtorta.  

What a complete and utter waste of time.  No thanks to Hollingsworth for starting it.  None of us has to read it, of course, but still it is disappointing the meaninglessness of the woman's writings has caught so much attention for so long.  

I am a convert, so personal revelations are something new to me of sorts.  I refuse to consider a seer to be a victim of any means of the word.  She is a sinner just like everyone else, so when I read that this or that person has a special word from God that we all must know about, I am suspicious and admit it, all or most others who have read such writings must at some time have been dubious also at some time or the other, when reading writings couched in a chummy vernacular.  

Our Blessed Lord, I hope, will forgive me, but I personally have not the time to consider such manner of revelation to be true or not and for the building of the faith, there is too much out there to help me without muddling up my mind with private revelation taken public.  Even with validation of a bishop, pope, or whomever, there is too much room for pride to enter in to such writings.  "Look at me, God has sent me a message for all of you to read".  I don't mean to mock all revelation, forgive me for seeming to do so, but really, folks, considering the crisis in the Church, perhaps private revelation like the Man God poem is better left private for those who want to take the time to indulge in it, but please, don't try to cram it down our throats.  It is a distraction.  

("Father is weary..."?  Really??

Hollingsworth, this is a forum, after all, not your blog.  Let those who disagree with you do so and move on.  Have the humility to know that people may not agree with you and that's OK.  Nothing personal to you, so don't let it be with you.  

I find it very difficult to believe that you wordy trads, most of whom, I believe, are now, apparently, somewhat aligned with Bp. Williamson and the newest bishop, Bp. Faure, can continue to trust and follow these two honored clerics.  Because Bp. Williamson does not  only recommend her writings highly, he encourages folks to reread her works over an over again.  You are the same 'shining ones' who went off on the "seer," when H.E. spoke positively and affirmatively of her visions in a fairly recent EC.  It appears now, that whenever these "resistance" bishops say anything of potential substance in the future, we'll have to check back with a bevy of all-knowing Cathinfo trads, to see if their Episcopal declarations pass muster.  Some of you, IMO, are turning into a joke.   :stare:

Is shrill, histrionic, irrational hyperbole really the tack you want to take in defending this prohibited work? Because you (and the other person throwing Novus Ordo imprimaturs around) really ought to realize that it only further damages your already irreparably damaged cause.

The placement of the book on the index, as well as the books own manifest objective heresies and blasphemies speak louder than the private, fallible "recommendations" of three or four people, no matter how holy they might be. One needn't be "all-knowing" to accept that very simple fact.

A couple days ago, I innocently posted a passage from the Easter writings of Maria Valtorta from her 1944 book entitled Notebooks.  I was immediately set upon by members of what can only be described as the 'Cathinfo Illuminati.'

Stop it already, you pathetic little drama queen.  I simply responded with a two-word post; it's you who got your panties all knotted up about it.  At no point have you ever attempted a defense of the contents of Valtorta's but continue on with your puerile ad hominems.

I shall now take it to Walmart, get it enlarged, purchase a frame, then hang that image of the mystic on the wall ...

You don't have much of a life, do you?

I don't think I've ever read such an immature, petulant comment on Cathinfo, and that's saying something.  

More so, all your comments in this thread H are saturated in pride and reveling in nastiness.  There were no honest responses, no civil discussion, no answering questions, but lots of illogical hyperbole.  You sound like a man possessed.  

They say that like attracts like, so you will enjoy your new picture in your present state of mind.  

btw, there was nothing 'innocent' in your motive to begin this topic.  You revealed your intent in every sarcastic evasive retort.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/VALTORTA.TXT

Good overview here.

Evidence for Pius XII's approval is very weak at best, based on a second-hand report from a biased source ... and even the reported comment is extremely vague.

How dare you cite the disgusting Novus Ordo filth of EWTN as a credible authority in this respectable intellectual debate?