Archbishop Charles Scicluna confirmed that the alleged apparitions reported by Anġelik Caruana were not supernatural.

The same could be said about the “Marian” apparitions at Lourdes, Fatima and Medjugorje.  The hallucinatory nature of the subjective visions reported by an adolescent girl and by peasant children at these sites becomes obvious when you view, on Google Images, the original wretched locations where the alleged apparitions took place.

Rather than in one of the hundreds of churches and “sanctuaries” dedicated to her, the Mother of God is alleged to have appeared in Portugal on an oak tree – a tree associated with Celtic paganism;  in Bosnia, on a heap of stones on a desolate hillside; and in the Pyrenees, in a hole in a bleak escarpment. The original barren locations of the alleged visions were later altered and embellished beyond recognition to attract credulous pilgrims.

The film The Song of Bernadette was reviewed as follows in the Times of Malta (February 22, 2012): “In 1858 , Bernadette, an adolescent French girl, had a vision of a beautiful lady in the city dump. She never claimed it to be anything other than this but the townspeople all assumed it to be the Virgin Mary.”

The cures that later took place at the sites of the delusional apparitions were, in fact, natural phenomena. As for the so-called ‘miracle’ of the sun at Fatima, an ophthalmologist observed: “If you stare at the sun long enough, you are going to see bizarre visual phenomena.”