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Estimated 100,000 attend anniversary
By Jakob Marschner on Jun 25, 2014 The 33rd anniversary of the first apparitions in Medjugorje is celebrated by next to 100,000 people. Medjugorje’s parish priest says that individual recognition of the Medjugorje message precedes the Church recognition. Visionary Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic asks for prayers for the seers. Outdoor Mass in Medjugorje on June 25, the ...
Pope Francis blessed Medjugorje medal
By Jakob Marschner on Jun 26, 2014 When Alicia Italiani from Erie, PA, wrote to Pope Francis to ask if her devotion to the Medjugorje message was was acceptable to the Church, the response was different from what she had expected. She received a Medjugorje medal, and a note that the Pontiff had personally ...
Confirmed: John Paul II wanted to visit
By Jakob Marschner on Jun 28, 2014 More than once, St. Pope John Paul II expressed a desire to visit Medjugorje, but never went because he was being careful in everything he did, the postulator of his saintly cause reveals. The Pope was attracted because Medjugorje is transforming people’s hearts, and turning them to ...
Pope’s top advisor would appear with Ivan
By Jakob Marschner on Jan 23, 2014 Chairman of the Pope’s Commission of Cardinals planned to appear with Medjugorje seer Ivan Dragicevic this weekend, yet Ivan did not make it. By agreeing to be side by side with the seer, Cardinal Maradiaga proved ready to dismiss the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office once more. Pope ...
Pope meets with key Medjugorje advisors
“Dear children, with a motherly love and a motherly patience I am looking at your ceaseless wandering and how lost you are. That is why I am with you. I desire to help you to first find and come to know yourself, so that, then, you would be able to recognize and to admit everything ...
Pope’s top advisor with Ivan in Honduras
By Jakob Marschner on Jan 23, 2014 Chairman of the Pope’s Commission of Cardinals appears alongside Medjugorje seer Ivan Dragicevic this weekend. By placing himself next to Ivan in an event that honors Medjugorje, the Cardinal dismisses the Prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office for the second time this week. Pope Francis with Cardinal Maradiaga last ...
Cardinal: Expect Pope’s verdict this year
By Jakob Marschner on Jan 20, 2014 Pope Francis’ ruling on Medjugorje can be expected this year, says Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, a member of the investigative Commission. The Commission has shared its opinion on whether to give Medjugorje shrine status or not, and people are still free to visit. Cardinal Vinko Puljic of ...
Commission found real fruits, no fraud
By Jakob Marschner on Jan 19, 2014 The findings of the Vatican Commission on Medjugorje make a favorable judgment an option, though in a partial form because the apparitions are ongoing. The Commission found real and significant fruits in the form of conversions, and no evidence of fraud, deception or abuse. No fraud detected, good ...
Official: Commission has ended its work
By Jakob Marschner on Jan 18, 2014 Four years of Vatican investigation into the events of Medjugorje ended with the final meeting of the international Commission on January 17, Vatican spokesman confirms. But it may still be a while until the conclusions and the ultimate decisions of the Pope are being disclosed. Vatican spokesman Fr. ...
Media: Commission will finish this week
“Dear children, with a motherly love and a motherly patience I am looking at your ceaseless wandering and how lost you are. That is why I am with you. I desire to help you to first find and come to know yourself, so that, then, you would be able to recognize and to admit everything ...
Rome restricts Medjugorje in the States
By Jakob Marschner on Nov 6, 2013 Visionary Ivan Dragicevic’s scheduled public apparations in late October were cancelled upon instructions from the head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. American Bishops have been asked not to permit arrangements that take the apparitions for granted. The top part of the letter the ...
Arranger: Restrictions only seemingly bad
By Jakob Marschner on Nov 7, 2013 “Before something really good happens, something seemingly bad always happens” says visionary Ivan Dragicevic’s US tour coordinator after restrictions on church apparitions and other arrangements. Recognized commentator sees the move as preparing Medjugorje’s shrine status. Ana Shawl Apparitions to Medjugorje visionaries currently do not take place in American churches, ...
Claim of condemnation is disobedience
By Jakob Marschner on Nov 10, 2013 The Vatican restrictions upon Medjugorje arrangements far from equal a formal condemnation, and those who give this impression in fact disobey Church authority by usurping the role of Pope Francis, says Professor Mark Miravalle who advises Medjugorje’s supporters to pray and obey. Professor Mark Miravalle with Pope Benedict ...
Media: Rome rules on Medjugorje in 2014
By Jakob Marschner on Nov 8, 2013 With a final decision expected next year, the Vatican Commission on Medjugorje will have their next meeting in two weeks, a major Italian newspaper reports. Il Messaggero confirms previous leaks saying there is neither evidence for recognizing nor for condemning the apparitions. The Palace of the Holy Office, the building ...