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A verdict on the Medjugorje apparitions is not far off. The
Medjugorje inquiry commission which was set up in March 2010 and is chaired by
Cardinal Camillo Ruini has concluded its work. Fr. Federico Lombardi confirmed
that the commission held its last meeting on Friday and the results of the
inquiry will now be examined by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
headed by the Prefect Gerhard Müller.
All the material gathered, the interviews with the seers and many other
witnesses, the stories told by the various people involved, expert reports and
theological reflections on the messages, has been summarized in one final report
and passed on to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for a careful
evaluation. The report will be studied alongside other documentation which the
Congregation has gathered over the course of the years.
Of the six seers who reported apparitions in June 1981, when they were still children or in their teens, three claim that they still see daily apparitions of the “Queen of Peace” at the same time every afternoon, wherever they happen to be at the time. These seers are: Vicka (who lives in Medjugorje), Marija (who lives in Monza) and Ivan (who lives in the US but returns to his homeland often). A fourth seer, Mirjana, sees an apparition on the second day of each month.
The large volume of messages going round poses a problem for the Commission. As does the forecasting of supernatural signs and secrets which the seers have refused to share, even with Church authorities.
But this alone does not a decision on the part of the Church with regard to the supernatural nature of the apparitions. In fact, over the past few months, Prefect Müller has cautioned bishops in the US to keep a close eye on meetings held by Medjugorje seers. These are often public meetings with lots of apparitions on the agenda. During last 14 November’s mass in St. Martha’s House, the Pope very eloquently said that Mary is a Mother "not a postmaster of the post office sending out messages every day." These words were addressed to those who continuously communicate messages and prophesies about the future.
The Bishop of Mostar, Ratko Peric, who also serves Medjugorje, is notoriously sceptical about the phenomenon, as was his predecessor. Then there is the age-long problem of the relations between the diocesan clergy and the Franciscan friars of Herzegovina at the time of the apparitions. A couple of solutions proposed in the recent past, have been to restore the old diocese of Trebinje so as to remove Medjugorje from the territory of the Mostar diocese or to create a Marian shrine that would be managed by a rector from another diocese
Giacomo Galeazzi - ANDREA TORNIELLI
Vatican City
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