A friend mailed me the following, something I felt should be shared:
The old formula has proved its worth too many times to abandon it now - that is print a 'finding' that is neither 'for' nor 'against' and leave it to the discernment and option of the faithful as to whether to believe in the Marian Presence or not.
The Irish bishops in the past have shown the way of how even in the face of such referenda as abortion etc fence-sitting is possible no matter what the prevailing pressures are to say Yes or No.
They have already bypassed the biggest obstacle by having a President of the Episcopal appointed to the commission suggest a geographical alteration which absolves the local ordinary (bishop) whose sole responsibility OUGHT to be judging it. (see quote: While only very little has leaked from the Vatican Commission on Medjugorje, four possible outcomes are in play, a major Croatian newspaper has unofficially learned. Two of them will remove the influence of the Bishop of Mostar who does not believe in the apparitions.)
While traditionaly the local bishop declared that there was nothing supernatural about it, he now is no longer in the way of the upcoming declaration which should prove to be another masterpiece of ambiguity.
After all when Fr. Gabriele Amorth who the devil has let believe that as chief vatican exorcist he has performed 70,000 exorcisms, is running his own Medjugorje prayergroup, its difficult to see how the upcoming announcement will not open the greatest portal to hell that the world has had to date.
http://www.medjugorjetoday.tv/6880/rome-will-get-positive-medjugorje-report/http://www.medjugorjeca.org/index.php?limitstart=14http://www.datelinezero.com/2011/11/25/vatican-exorcist-talks-medjugorje/http://catholicism.about.com/b/2011/11/09/an-exorcist-looks-at-medjugorje.htmTo further cloud the issue they are thinking on getting rid/re-designating the original diocese in which the spirit-guides were channelling the gospa on the hoof.
The book below is a good study of Medjugorje:
http://www.theotokos.org.uk/pages/books/medjbook/medjbook.htmlunfortunately the author does not seem to have any suspicions about the spirit of Vatican-2
Whether that makes his thesis that the 'visions' are not from Heaven all the more compelling or not, I'm not sure.
Topic: Medjugorje Portal - Heaven, Hell or whatever you think yourself? (Read 656 times)