"John Paul II has privately speculated that the fulfillment of Fatima is now at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovina, where seers have claimed to have received secrets since just after the 1981 shooting."
With all the controversy surrounding Medjugorje, I find it compelling that JPII has indeed speculated that the alleged appartions in Bosnia could very well be the fulfillment of Fatima. I'm really intrigued by that!!!
John Paul II never speculated any such thing. Medjugorje has never been approved by the Church, even after three commission investigations.
Here. Read what the current bishop, Bishop Peric, said just last summer:
Fifthly, the "seers" who see visions on a daily basis and the endless apparitions themselves (33,333 to date, nor it there any risk of my being mistaken, for there is no end to the numbers or the "visions") are more in the nature of a religious show and a spectacle for the world than a true and faithful witness to the peace and unity of the Faith and love for the Church. Who can fail to see that these endlessly multiplying numbers should not be taken seriously? Shall we change our Catholic orthodoxy for fantastical superstition?
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I find it very doubtful that JPII said anything positive about Medjugorje.
I find this piece of info very difficult to believe. So, I shall not believe it.
Also, the only approved appritions are Fatima, Lourdes and Guadelupe. None of the others are approved by the church. NONE.
Given that every reasonable person had concluded Medjugorje to be an obvious and cynical fraud, the person who posted this about JP II hopefully has their facts straight. I'll bet they don't have a URL, a journal, a date, etc. for that 'speculation'. That's a heck of a rumor, that JP II would knowingly promote a phony 'apparition'. And just think about it. We've all seen the photos of the near-death pontiff, barely able to lift his head and stay awake, even before his last stroke, or whatever it was. This doesn't seem to be a man who can think or decide much of anything, but rather appears to all the world to be a cutout figurehead, propper up in a chair, in order to empower those who supposedly take their orders from him. They don't want it to end. They don't want a real Pope who can speak for himself. But there will be one, and from the looks of JP II, pretty soon.
Medjugorje was never recognized by the church.