Vatican's Position
The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican has a published and detailed set of steps for "Judging Alleged Apparitions and Revelations" that claim supernatural origin. In 1978 the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly of the Holy Office) issued Normae Congregationis, i.e. "Norms of the Congregation for Proceeding in Judging Alleged Apparitions and Revelations".
The higher levels of the Vatican hierarchy have expressed skepticism about The Poem of the Man God. In 1992, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi wrote that the he viewed the visions and dictations of Maria Valtorta as "simply the literary forms used by the author to narrate in her own way the life of Jesus" and that they cannot be considered supernatural in origin.
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