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A leak from the Medj study commission Wednesday, 12 February 2020 01:24 Richard Chonak 0 Comments David Murgia, a religion journalist who has produced a number of projects for national television networks in Italy, and who is also a supporter of the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, writes on his blog Il Segno di Giona (“The Sign of Jonah”) that he has come into the possession of a copy of the Ruini commission report . In this post I’ll present a draft English translation of his excerpts from the report. This study group was launched under Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 and led by Camillo […] Read more ... “Dear Bishops, don’t be fooled…” Saturday, 20 October 2018 22:09 Richard Chonak 0 Comments Sara Manzardo, a young married woman connected with the Italian Catholic blog “Cor XIII”, wrote this beautiful letter to the bishops on the occasion of the Synod on youth; it’s appeared on a couple of sites. The translation is mine. She writes: Now that the Synod has just begun, the media buzz has started too and, looking at what the newspapers report, this synod on youth will be talking mostly about migrants, LGBT, and naturally about premarital sex, because chastity seems to be the main reason why youth […] Read more ... Medjugorje: focus on the first ten days Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:52 Richard Chonak 2 Comments One would think that the ardent promoters of Medjugorje would be overflowing with Christian virtues, given that they supposedly get the benefit of so much spiritual guidance in the form of frequent sermonettes from Heaven: over 1000 messages by now. But some of them responded quite bitterly to the recent interview given by Fr. Manfred Hauke in the “ Tagespost ” Catholic newspaper in Germany: one Austrian news site headlined its piece “If a ‘Mariologist’ fights against the Mother of God”, presenting attacks from the physician and Medjugorje […] Read more ... “The Courage to Reveal” Thursday, 09 August 2018 20:53 Richard Chonak 0 Comments The chairman of the German Society for Mariology, Manfred Hauke, looking at the Bosnian pilgrimage site Medjugorje, calls first for a clarification on the question of the phenomenon’s authenticity and then for pastoral answers. By Regina Einig Q. Professor Hauke, the new Apostolic Visitator to Medjugorje, Archbishop Hoser, has recently determined that the pilgrimage activity in that town in Bosnia-Herzegovina corresponds to the recommendations of the Second Vatican Council. How do you interpret this statement, and how can we place it in context? Hauke: In his first […] Read more ... Page 1 of 1174 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 1,174 Next What? Who? 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