Pray and do penance. Radical stuff. Isn't that pretty much Christianity 101?

I don't mind when people put personal stock in Marian apparitions. I just mind when they get all militant about it, as if the rest of us had better get on board or else.

By the way, the Church has never sanctioned Akita. The Vatican has treated the alleged apparitions with deafening silence, while Cardinal Peter Shirayanagi, one-time Archbishop of Tokyo, said bluntly that “The events of Akita are no longer to be taken seriously.”