"The Portugal News also reported that Christine's investigation led her to discover an "increasing number of children who are allegedly being sexually abused by so-called Catholic clerics within the confines of religious shrines, while managing to deceive their superiors. She recently exposed a group of pedophile priests at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, who had sexually abused hundreds of children and also made them available to sex tourists.
But when she confronted Fr. Svetozar Kraljevic, OFM, the priest who has had the longest association with the Shrine at Medjugorje and is their English-speaking representative, with her proof of what she had discovered, he referred to "kids being drugged, raped and sodomized in a visionary's house as akin to 'a car accident' ". At that point, Christine leaned forward and described in graphic detail what had happened to the children at Medjugorje. But it seemed to have no visible effect on Fr. Svet, because as Christine explains, "he simply shrugged and turned away".
The same news article in the Portugal News reported that Christine had also learned that, "Boniface do Rosário, a 64-year old Malaysian with previous convictions for child sexual abuse in England and Germany, became a prominent figure within the Fatima community and concelebrated Mass on a regular basis at the shrine. He posed as a bishop of the African Comboni missionary order and solicited funds from unsuspecting pilgrims for an imaginary seminary he said he was building on the outskirts of Fatima. He was finally unmasked in 1990, but before serving any of his prison sentences, he was released under an amnesty granted by President Mario Soares to mark the visit to Portugal of Pope John Paul II in 1991. His present whereabouts are unknown.
Christine feels these kinds of hoaxes continue to happen because, in general, the church doesn't want to deal with the problem of exploited children and are uncomfortable discussing it especially when sacred shines like Fatima and Medjugorje are the backdrop for such blatant frauds."
Which I think brings a much larger issue to the whole fraud and Croatian thing, that of not only pedophilia, but worldwide cooperation in a child sex ring, as part of the church in former Yugoslavia.
It just continues to get more ugly with Medjugorje, perhaps Fatima as well.