Timeline: Apparitions and prophecy culture

In the note The Queen of Peace, the DDF granted a nihil obstat to the spiritual phenomena of Medjugorje and approved devotion at the shrine, without declaring the apparitions supernatural; the messages remain 'alleged'.

The new norms, in force from 19 May 2024, replaced those of 1978. As a rule, no Church authority will declare a phenomenon supernatural, even when a nihil obstat is granted. Bishops propose one of six verdicts, which the Dicastery must confirm.

Bishop Manuel Sánchez Monge restated that the alleged 1961–1965 apparitions at Garabandal have not been recognised. He objected that organisers of a 'Madrid with Garabandal' event had not consulted him. CNA reported his statement on 21 October 2022.

During a penitential service at St Peter's, with a parallel act at Fátima, Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart. The Fatima Center called the ceremony solemn but said it was not the consecration Our Lady had requested.

Bishop Gilles Lemay of Amos disavowed the messages and prophecies of Fr. Michel Rodrigue, which had spread online, including via the site Countdown to the Kingdom. Bishop Robert Bourgon of Hearst-Moosonee followed six days later.

Nicholas Gruner, who founded the Fatima Crusaders (now The Fatima Center) in 1978 and whose canonical suspension was disputed for years, died while working in the Center's office in Fort Erie, Ontario.

The CDF document The Message of Fatima published all three parts of the secret with a theological commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger, who wrote that no great mystery is revealed. The Fatima Center and its founder Nicholas Gruner disputed that the disclosure was complete.

Bishop John Shojiro Ito of Niigata, Japan, authorised veneration of "the Holy Mother of Akita" in his diocese while awaiting a definitive judgment from the Holy See. EWTN's editors doubt that any later formal Vatican decree on Akita exists.