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\"Cross_in_Medjugorje\"<\/a>By Stephen Ryan<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Got an email from a good friend \u2013 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<\/span><\/strong>. Jim emailed to tell me he sent his book about his experience with weeping statues to Pope Francis.\n
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The weeping statues \u00a0event, \u00a0known as the \u201cSeton Miracles\u201d, \u00a0took 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 \u201cWhen Statues Weep\u201d<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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I don\u2019t 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 \u2013 the great unexplained spiritual mystery, to my conversion and return to the Catholic faith. Without miracles and mystery I would probably be without faith.<\/div>\n
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Signs and wonders help people find God. It is just a fact. \u00a0But\u00a0sadly, depending on one\u2019s parish, the mystery of God and Jesus\u2019s miracles often go unmentioned. Signs and wonders remind us of the great mysteries of faith. As Pope Francis said \u201cWithout mysticism, religion is just philosophy.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Pope John Paul II once powerfully observed, \u201cToday\u2019s world has lost its sense of the supernatural, but many are searching for it \u2013and find it in Medjugorje,<\/strong> <\/span>through prayer, penance, and fasting.\u201d 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.<\/span><\/div>\n
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