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The Announcement of the 4th Medjugorje Commission
STATEMENT OF APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ABOUT
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MEDJUGORJE
Archbishop Allessandro D’Errico, Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and
Herzegovina, gave statement about Medjugorje on March 18th at the end of 48th
Bishop’s Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the statement broadcasted by
Radio Mir Medjugorje, he amongst other things said: “Whenever I would meet Holy
Father, he was always very much interested in Medjugorje. He was involved in
everything, starting with the time when he was Head of Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith. He is aware that this is the issue of special importance,
and he, as supreme authority of the Church, needs to give his precise statement
about that matter. Holy Father is very much familiar with Medjugorje phenomenon;
he even mentioned that to me personally. He is aware of huge amount of positive
and good influence of local priests, religious, Franciscans, lay people, and
therefore, it is very difficult for him to perceive that there can be so many
opposing information about the same matter.
That is why he wanted to establish this Commission that is on really high level.
He wanted to establish this Commission in order for him to have broad picture
about this matter, but according to the people who have highest qualities and
skills. That is why he invited Cardinals, Bishops and experts from different
parts of the world to be part of this Commission.
On March 17, 2010 it was officially announced that Chairman of this Commission is
going to be Cardinal Ruini, very prestigious cardinal, who has great qualities,
and also close associate to Holy Father, and his friend not only in this period
while he is the pope. Cardinal Ruini is very much familiar with situation in
Bosnia and Herzegovina; he especially knows the situation from the war period,
when he used to be President of Bishop’s Conference of Italy. At that time, he
brought decision that Italian Church and Bishop’s Conference of Italy become
more involved in helping to all wounded nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
What is especially interesting, and shows Holy Father’s great sympathy for this
country, is that he wanted this information about Commission to be announced
publicly at the same time, both in Vatican as well as in Mostar, since
Medjugorje is in territory of Mostar Diocese. I know well that media spoke a lot
about this Commission for a longer period of time, and certain expectations were
made. Today, we can say that we are pleased and grateful to Holy Father for this
attention that he expressed towards Mostar and our Catholic communities. That is
how I, on behalf of Holy Father, announced this decision on March 17th, at the
same time when decision was announced in Rome. We understand that work of this
Commission is going to be very demanding, and I would like to invite all of our
communities to pray and to offer work of this Commission to St. Joseph and to
Mary, Mother of Church, patron saints of Mostar.
View all our organized articles on the Medjugorje Commissions on this page> http://www.medjugorjeusa.org/commissionsorganized.htm
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