Faith of Our Fathers ping
Back in the 1980’s, members of a local Catholic Church in Santa Barbara, California took a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.
I wish I had gone with them, because they witnessed some amazing things. Small crosses carried by the parishioners turned to gold, the sun cartwheeled across the horizon, into the sky, and down to the other side of the horizon; some people saw flaming crosses in the sky, other people had visions. Wish I had seen those wonders.
Shortly after the trip, the Balkans War started, so perhaps all these miracles were some kind of warning?
I first heard about the scandal in the early 1990’s and it was old then (it was related in Mary Craig’s book, which dates back to before the fall of the berlin wall).
Old news.
some research needed to get another viewpoint
http://www.medjugorje.org/clarification.htm
Interview with Fr. Ivan Sesar, Provincial of the Herzegovinian Franciscan Provinc
“Was Fr. Tomislav the spiritual guide of the visionaries? Was he presenting himself falsely, even to the Pope, as the one who “by God’s providence leads the Medjugorje visionaries”?
– This provincial house has never proposed or appointed anyone as the spiritual guide of the visionaries. I think that not a single one of the parish priests of Medjugorje ever had a “mandate” to lead them spiritually. The fact is that some of the Franciscans were hearing confessions of some of the visionaries; they had, and still do have friendly relationships with them and their families. Who is whose friend or spiritual guide, you have to ask this the visionaries themselves. These days, we could read in the media that some of the visionaries denied this kind of leadership.”