Can we get some background on this? It reads like someone else’s class notes from a course we never signed up for.
Rofl!!!!!!!! Exactly.
The supposed apparitions and messages from Medjugorje are the devil's way to squash the message of Fatima in 1917. I have friends who are firm devotees. I have discontinued regular contact with them because they are unwilling to listen to the facts.
My first clue that it was not Mary who was speaking to those children was the simple fact that Mary chooses her words carefully and always says what she has to say and she is done and moves on. Witness any of the approved apparitions like Fatima, Lourdes or La Salette. She has a message from God to convey and would never appear to some kids and say something like, "Well, I don't have much to say today." Her words are too important to waste them with any kind of frivolity.
Second clue, the priest involved with the teens got a nun pregnant and has also been regularly disobedient to Church authorities.
Third clue, all of the kids are now wealthy from the donations. That did not happen to Bernadette at Lourdes, or the three children at Fatima, or the two children from La Salette.
Medjugorje is nothing more than a fake apparition. The devil is having a great time fooling lots of people.