\u201cThe Virgin Mary has not appeared in Medjugorje,\u201d said Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, the diocese in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which includes Medjugorje.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There is no apparition of Mary at Medjugorje. Account for it how you will (I think \u201cfraud\u201d is the obvious explanation), the only important takeaway is that the machine must be unplugged, the claims of apparitions there cease and the tours, pilgrimages and so forth need to end in favor of better uses of time, energy, and money. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Rome took it out of the hands of the local bishops!\u201d<\/p>\n
No. Rome did not. The local bishops handed it off to Rome because the fraudulent visionaries have whipped up a ferment over this among credulous and uninformed people who either don\u2019t know of or refuse to listen to the local bishops and their repeated insistence that Mary is not appearing there. The hope has been that people will listen to Rome since they won\u2019t listen to the local ordinaries and their repeated rejection of this fraud.<\/p>\n
It is precisely because Rome has not \u201ctaken it out of his hands\u201d that the local bishop is free to say\u2013again\u2013\u201cThe Virgin Mary has not appeared in Medjugorje.\u201d<\/p>\n
Save yourself anguish and disappointment and, if apparitions are important to your faith, look at approved ones, not at those that local bishops have repeatedly told you are not real. Fatima is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. That\u2019s a good one and approved by the Church. Why not venerate Our Lady of Fatima? Or Lourdes?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Quoth he: \u201cThe Virgin Mary has not appeared in Medjugorje,\u201d said Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, the diocese in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which includes Medjugorje. There is no apparition of Mary at Medjugorje. Account for it how you will (I think \u201cfraud\u201d is the obvious explanation), the only important takeaway is that the machine must be unplugged, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-99384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-medjugorje"],"yoast_head":"\n
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