The Church investigation into reported Marian apparitions at Borg in-Nadur was expected to be concluded “within weeks”, a spokesman said.
“The result of the diocesan investigation will be published,” the spokesman added.
Anġelik Caruana claims the Virgin Mary appears to him at Borġ in-Nadur, in the limits of Birżebbuġa, every Wednesday.
The television programme Xarabank recently dedicated a programme to the subject and, subsequently, psychiatrist Mark Xuereb was invited by the producers to publicly announce the outcome of his report on the matter.
Dr Xuereb had been appointed to follow Mr Caruana by his former spiritual director, Fr Hayden Williams, a Capuchin friar.
The result of the diocesan investigation will be published
The psychiatrist has often been quoted as saying he would make his findings known if he felt they were in the public interest. He said he had followed the case between 2006 and 2012 when Mr Caruana “stopped cooperating”.
However, on February 27, Dr Xuereb announced he could not divulge his findings because of a legal letter filed in the First Hall of the Civil Court.
In it, Mr Caruana and his wife, Catherine, called on Dr Xuereb not to divulge information about him without his consent, in accordance with professional ethics.
The couple reserved the right to take further legal action against Dr Xuereb. During the programme Dr Xuereb said he had sent a copy of his report to the Curia and informed the Caruana family about his conclusions.
Times of Malta asked the Curia whether it planned to use Dr Xuereb’s report in its own investigations. The Church spokesman said: “During the last week of February 2015, Dr Mark Xuereb discussed in detail his scientific findings with the local Church authorities. The Church authorities are duty-bound to make use of any fact, witness and report that they deem relevant and useful in their discernment to establish the truth.”
In a statement, the Caruana family said they filed the legal letter because they felt that for the whole truth to surface, there had to be a holistic study, not simply one based on psychiatric information.
They said they still did not have a full copy of the report and that Dr Xuereb had not issued his report in the five years during which he was actively following the case.
They questioned why Dr Xuereb had concluded the report – started in 2006 – now, “coincidentally” in time for the Xarabank programme. Mr Caruana first made headlines in 2006 when he claimed that a statue of the Virgin, bought by his wife, shed tears of blood and oozed oil.
In 2009, forensic investigators, commissioned by the Archbishop, said DNA tests proved the blood was Mr Caruana’s and the oil was everyday cooking oil.
Speaking on Xarabank, Mr Caruana said he would respect the will of the Curia.