In his book, Garabandal Message of Hope: Recent Marian Apparitions, Fr. José Luis Saavedra tells us that the Virgin Mary’s messages in Garabandal are an "urgent exhortation to remedy the situation.”
Dr. Luis Morales Noriega— well-known psychiatrist of Santander (in Cantabria, Spain)— was part of the commission appointed by the Bishopric of Santander for the study of the apparitions of San Sebastián de Garabandal since they began in the summer of 1961. He never hid his negative opinion on the matter, a position that had a decisive influence on the Bishopric’s stance. On the basis of the reports of that commission— in large part, Morales's studies— several episcopal notes were published in which it affirmed "It is not confirmed to be of supernatural origin" in the events of Garabandal.
Msgr. Manuel Pio Lopez, Archbishop of Jalapa, Mexico, wrote a letter dated July 8, 1966, in which he not only permitted the diffusion of San Sebastian de Garabandal’s apparitions, but even described his motives for doing so and facilitated the sources he obtained information in favor of the events from.
After studying the girls from different points of view, numerous experts agreed in concluding that the girls were "simple and normal." This was affirmed, for example, by Dr. Jeronimo Dominguez after personally interviewing the girls.
