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From CNS:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

A Polish archbishop who inspected Bosnia-Herzegovina\u2019s Medjugorje shrine for the pope predicted the Vatican will soon recognize its Marian apparitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has passed all documentation to the Secretariat of State \u2014 everything suggests the apparitions will be accepted before the year ends,\u201d said Archbishop Henryk Hoser.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to believe the six visionaries have been lying for 36 years,\u201d the archbishop said. \u201cWhat they say is coherent, and none is mentally disturbed, while the apparitions\u2019 faithfulness to church doctrine is also a powerful argument for their authenticity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The archbishop spoke as he completed a report from his spring mission to the hilltop shrine, which has not been officially recognized by the church despite 2.5 million pilgrims annually.<\/p>\n

He told Poland\u2019s Catholic Information Agency, KAI, he had found an \u201cexceptional atmosphere\u201d of \u201cspiritual creativeness\u201d at Medjugorje, characterized by \u201cprayer, silence, meditation, Eucharist, adoration, fasting and reconciliation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However:<\/p>\n

Six teenagers claim to have seen the Virgin Mary June 24, 1981, near Medjugorje. Since then, they have reported more than 42,000 apparitions at the site, which was largely untouched by the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n

In April, the then-prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, told KAI ageny it still could \u201ctake a long time\u201d for the Vatican to rule on the apparitions, despite Archbishop Hoser\u2019s pastoral visitation.<\/p>\n

Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, the local ordinary, has consistently dismissed the Medjugorje apparitions as false, like his predecessor, Bishop Pavao Zanic, and appealed to bishops abroad not to support pilgrimages there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From CNS:\u00a0 A Polish archbishop who inspected Bosnia-Herzegovina\u2019s Medjugorje shrine for the pope predicted the Vatican will soon recognize its Marian apparitions. \u201cThe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has passed all documentation to the Secretariat of State \u2014 everything suggests the apparitions will be accepted before the year ends,\u201d said Archbishop Henryk Hoser. 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