Bill Tammeus,                     
I do respect/enjoy your other excellent articles! 
However,  I do not think you need to concern yourself about the apparitions of the Vergin Mary. You apparently doing fine using your logical intellectual mind for your spiritual life.
The best shortest way of faith is the pure faith, many saints said!
However, you are wasting your mind wanting to make everyone else to do what you do! 
That my dear is not a faith! That is bordering on blaspheming. The Christian religion is a religion of miracles!  37 miracles of Jesus recorded in four gospels! Are you with a postmodern mind can't grasp the meaning from Jesus miracles?