apparitions

"A lot of the time we're just scared of these apparitions that we've created and these narratives that we've foisted upon other people."

We're not actually mad at or scared of real people or real things a lot of the time, sometimes yes, but a lot of the time we're just scared of these apparitions that we've created and these narratives that we've foisted upon other people.

The Roman Catholic Church has long been vigilant when it comes to supernatural apparitions like professed sightings of the Virgin Mary, weeping Madonnas or bleeding crucifixes.

Given that apparitions or other sightings are private experiences for individuals, the church does not require the faithful to accept the authenticity of such events.

But some of those that the Vatican has endorsed, like the 19th-century apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France, and those in early-20th-century Fátima, Portugal, have become hugely popular — and lucrative — pilgrimage destinations and focuses of faith.