excommunicated friar of Medjugorje 30/7/2009
Sex and Heresy in the Marian shrine
Brother Tomislav Vlasic, the spiritual father of six children in Medjugorje in 1981 reported seeing the Virgin Mary, was expelled from the Franciscans. E 'threatened with excommunication by the Pope with the infamous accusations of heresy, manipulation of consciences, suspected mysticism and sex with a nun. Vlasic played in advance, giving formally resigned in March, although the news was leaked just recently.
A blow to the image of Medjugorje, a village in the hills of the forgotten 'and Herzegovina, which became the beginning of the eighties one of the most popular Marian shrines in the world, a magnet for millions of devotees who go there in spite of the Church has never recognized the venue for special events "supernatural." Indeed, the Vatican has always looked askance at those Marian apparitions that point, every day at 17, which still continue, at least to hear the stories of the visionaries.
The accusations made by Benedict XVI, through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, against the spiritual father of the great mystical phenomenon are very serious: "Dissemination of dubious doctrine, manipulation of consciences, suspicious mysticism, disobedience to orders and acts against the lawfully constituted" sextum "(against the sixth commandment not to commit adultery)." To make them even more grim, there is a sentence of the former department of Ratzinger that has the flavor of a sentence: the sins of which he is accused were committed in the friar "in the context of the phenomenon of Medjugorje."
In 1985, Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, forbade any official pilgrimage, the diocesan or parish religious site. The Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz said that the monk was expelled from his order. From Rome, the Franciscan Order deny, however, that ever goes into effect, as Vlasic, facing the threat of excommunication, called for the reduction to the lay state.
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