A Critical Review of Mr. Arthur Policaprio's 'The Book of Truth: A Critical Review'

By David Moorcroft

Mr. Arthur Policarpio graduated from Catholic University 

De La Salle,  and holds a degree of Bachelor of Science in 

Business Management. He heads the local Mobext mobile 

marketing company. He promotes Maria Divine Mercy 

on his website Totus Tuus, Maria

The self-proclaimed ‘Catholic writer’ Arthur Policarpio begins his ‘Critical Review’ of the ‘Book of Truth’ by asking ‘Will the Second Coming of Jesus happen in our lifetime?’, and refers to a ‘series of alleged messages given to an Irish seer who goes by the anonymous name of “Maria Divine Mercy”’ (MDM). 

So far, so good.  We are going to be treated to an impartial criticism of this ‘seer’s’ ‘alleged’ messages from heaven. 

He then asks ‘Can we trust private revelation?’, and answers his own question: 

     ‘God has always communicated to His people through “private revelations”. Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Noah, Daniel, Revelation’, 

adding that: 

A Response to Arthur Policarpio's Response to Dr. Mark Miravalle

By David Moorcroft 

Mr. Arthur Policarpio graduated from Catholic University 

De La Salle,  and holds a degree of Bachelor of Science in 

Business Management. He heads the local Mobext mobile 

marketing company. He promotes Maria Divine Mercy 

on his website Totus Tuus, Maria

The theologian Dr Mark Miravalle has published an article condemning the alleged prophetic messages to an anonymous ‘seer’ who calls herself ‘Maria Divine Mercy’ (MDM). The article has provoked a response from Mr Arthur Policarpio on his website ‘Totus Tuus, Maria’. 

Mr Policarpio claims to be a ‘Catholic writer’. There are many like him, taking up space on the Internet and representing every strain of ‘Catholic’ thought abroad in the world. If we were Anglicans, we could call ‘Catholic writers’ a Broad Church. So where in this Latitudinarian profession do we place Mr Policarpio? 

At the beginning of his ‘Response’, he accepts without question ‘the prophecies and messages given by Our Lord to the Irish seer “Maria Divine Mercy”.’ It is as well to get this clear: no time-wasting chit-chat about being objective. He says: