Vatican crack down

Vatican crack down on people setting up audience chairs to take money for delivering messages from the Virgin Mary.

In his own "holy war," the pontiff will publish criteria to help bishops determine which “visions” are true and which are false. In some cases, the Mail reported, exorcists will be used to determine the validity of a statement.

The pope is reportedly concerned about an explosion in the number of people who claim to see the Virgin Mary, Jesus, bleeding or weeping statues and experience signs of the stigmata – the crucifixion wounds of Jesus.

Under the current protocol, a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, theologians and priests are set up by a bishop to probe the claims.

This has potential to crimp the style of a lot of cash cows.