Shadows of Medjugorje: the Pope is reduced to the lay state Father Tomislav Vlasic, the spiritual leader of the 'seers' accused of heresy, manipulation of consciences and violation of the Sixth Commandment
CITY' OF THE VATICAN - leaves the scene , carrying the threat of excommunication by the Pope and the infamous accusations of heresy, manipulation of consciences, suspicious mysticism, and even to have had sex with a nun, a Franciscan Tomislav Vlasic, who in 1981 gave rise to the phenomenon of Medjugorje in their capacity of 'spiritual father' of the six kids who suddenly began to report daily to see Madonna. Vlasic did not wait to be excommunicated and has played up front: has formally resigned in March, although the news and 'leaked just recently. A blow to the image of Medjugorje, a village forgotten hills of Herzegovina, which became the beginning of the eighties one of the most Marian sites 'popular in the world, a magnet for millions of devotees who go there in spite of the Church' s has never recognized as a venue for events''supernatural.'' Indeed, the Vatican has always looked askance at those Marian apparitions so 'on time, every day at 17.00, which still continue, at least to hear the stories of the visionaries, grown up and scattered all over the world: more' than 40 thousand views and not ''Seem to have no end,''as I look ', in a visit to the Vatican in 2006 in Limington, the current bishop of the diocese, that of Mostar, Bishop Ratko Peric. The allegations made by Pope Benedict XVI, through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, against the 'spiritual father' of the great mystical phenomenon, are therefore very serious''Diffusion of dubious doctrine, manipulation of consciences, suspicious mysticism, disobedience toward legitimately orders constituted and acts against the 'sextum' (against the Sixth Commandment).'' To make them even more 'dark and there' a phrase that Ratzinger's former department has the flavor of a decision: the sins of which 'the friar accused were committed''in the context of the phenomenon Medjugorje.'' With the departure of Vlasic, Medjugorje closes another chapter in its history, marked by success on believers and the fascination and suspicion generated in the apparatus of the Church. Gia 'in the beginning, then the diocesan bishop, the late Bishop Pavao Zanic, accuse' Vlasic and other Franciscans to be impostors: the Madonna, in her apparitions to the children, never failed to criticize the conduct of the authorities' local church and instead of exalting the deeds of the friars who, from their convent, ran pilgrimages. In 1984, while in Medjugorje flourished religious tourism, Vlasic took pen and paper to celebrate itself with Pope John Paul II as one who, through the''Divine Providence guides the seers.'' The Church sent 'in those years, three committees on the spot, who could not find any support for claims on daily meetings with the Madonna, the bishops of Yugoslavia in 1991 enacted that no one could speak of''supernatural apparitions or revelations.'' So far, the phenomena of Medjugorje''under review''. In 1985, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, forbade 'any official pilgrimage, the diocesan or parish religious site. I leave 'but the freedom' to individual Catholics to travel to Medjugorje in the company of priests. He became Pope Benedict then went on the investigation until a final verdict against the great director Last Balkan epic mystical. The nth stage of a story with too many obscure points, the alleged inconsistency of the theological messages that the Virgin would rely upon the 'seers', the turnover of 'suspect' that concern since the early eighties the small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For skeptics, Medjugorje and 'a whole mount, an invention of the six' seers ', for those who believe in the apparitions, and not just' all true, but sooner or later should be even revealed some of the secrets entrusted to the Virgin Mary to the group of 'mystical'. Cosi ', between' hawks 'and' doves ', continues the battle authenticity' of the apparitions, pending the final decision of the Vatican. Meanwhile, as you can ' note from the interview made a year ago and revived in the area of \u200b\u200bthis newspaper, even those like Father Rene Laurentin, one of the most important mariologists the world, was inclined to believe the veracity of the Medjugorje phenomenon, now moves a few steps back.
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