Necedah
NECEDAH
BASIC R.C. BELIEF From JOHN CARDINAL CODY’S MESSAGE, October 1981. “We have received many inquiries about the Necedah situation. One of our members recently wrote to the Bishop of the Diocese of LaCrosse, Wisconsin and received this answer from Father John I. Nilles, Chancellor, dated August 3, 1981.
“`Thank you for your letter of 29 July concerning the authenticity of apparitions of Mary Van Hoof. I am forwarding materials which clearly indicate that the entire Necedah situation has been condemned by the Church from the very beginning as a fraud.
“`His Excellency, Bishop Freking, would be nmost grateful if you circulate this information among your friends. Prayer through Our Blessed Mother is a laudable Catholic practice. These people are no longer Catholic. Incidentally, the so-called Archbishop Stehlik mentioned in ther 6/7/79 article has recently broken with the Cult. He submitted to the authority of the Church and called the operation at Necedah fakery.'”