The Vatican has declared that alleged appearances of Jesus in Dozule, France, reported by a Catholic mother in the 1970s, are not genuinely supernatural. This ruling, approved by Pope Leo, means the world's 1.4 billion Catholics should not consider these apparitions as authentic.

• A Catholic mother claimed to have seen Jesus 49 times and was told to build a 7.38-meter (24.21-foot) cross.
• The Vatican's top doctrinal office stated the alleged apparitions are "definitive, as not supernatural in origin."
• The reported appearances also included a prophecy that the world would end before the year 2000, which "clearly... was not fulfilled."