<P> The revelations also contain references to imminent chastisement, a thermonuclear World War III, Soviet submarines, and accusations that the mainstream Roman Catholic hierarchy and Papacy had been subverted . </P> <P> After an investigation failed to support the validity of the apparitions, in 1951 John P. Treacy, Bishop of La Crosse, told the Van Hoofs to remove religious artifacts from their farm and stop circulating literature about the apparitions . In an official statement issued in 1955, he declared the visions to be false and prohibited worship associated with them . Van Hoof and her associates did not obey these orders . In May 1975, Bishop Frederick William Freking (1964--1983), Treacy's immediate successor, placed Van Hoof and six of her key followers under interdict, precipitating Van Hoof's final schism with the Roman Catholic Church . </P> <P> Since 1975, the shrine has continued to operate, but has disaffiliated from mainstream Roman Catholicism, and affiliated instead with an Old Catholic, conservative independent Catholic organization . The shrine runs a private primary school, established in 1982, and a visitor center . Believers are building a new "House of Prayer" at the spot of the visions . </P> <P> Seven Sorrows of Our Sorrowful Mother's Home for Unwanted Infants - The name of the orphanage that used to be run by this community in the 1970s . </P>

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