Pope Francis Said “Without Mysticism, Religion Is Just Philosophy.” Events Like Medjugorje Help People Return To God

By Stephen Ryan

Got an email from a good friend – Jim Carney. Jim is a Harvard Law graduate, retired law professor, author of a book about the Rosary and an eye witness to the most extraordinary example of weeping statues in the history of the United States. Jim emailed to tell me he sent his book about his experience with weeping statues to Pope Francis.

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The weeping statues event, known as the “Seton Miracles”, took place in a D.C. suburban town. Jim wrote a remarkable book about his eye witness experience. Every local TV station covered it, as did the Wash Post and CNN. They had TV footage of the statues crying. At the height of the media frenzy the diocese of Arlington in Virginia issued a proclamation that members of the diocese could not speak of the events. Jim has fought a long battle to get the diocese to investigate the claims. There are thousands of eye witnesses but unfortunately the diocese will not budge on re-opening the case.. Here is an article Jim wrote called “When Statues Weep”.

I don’t mind saying that there is a direct link from the weeping statue event that occurred just a few miles from my home town Alexandria, Va., to my discovery of Medjugorje – the great unexplained spiritual mystery, to my conversion and return to the Catholic faith. Without miracles and mystery I would probably be without faith.

Signs and wonders help people find God. It is just a fact. But sadly, depending on one’s parish, the mystery of God and Jesus’s miracles often go unmentioned. Signs and wonders remind us of the great mysteries of faith. As Pope Francis said “Without mysticism, religion is just philosophy.”

Danial Klimek writes

Pope John Paul II once powerfully observed, “Today’s world has lost its sense of the supernatural, but many are searching for it –and find it in Medjugorje, through prayer, penance, and fasting.” The late pontiff and future saint, his holiness, spoke these words on August 1, 1989,while addressing a group of Italian physicians studying the apparitions in Medjugorje with medical and scientific investigations.

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Pope Francis said “Without mysticism, religion is just philosophy.” Events Like Medjugorje Help People Return to God