147: The Medjugorje Deception—Dr. E. Michael Jones

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🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In June 1981, six Croatian teens (well, one was 10) went up Podbrdo Hill near the village of Medjugorje in then rural Yugoslavia. When they came down, they said they had seen “the Gospa” (Croatian for Lady). The local bishop, Pavao Žanić, was initially open to their claims but...after he interviewed them, and learned the full story, he knew it was a complete hoax.

If you do an internet search for “Medjugorje” you will find that the pro-apparition websites, books, DVDs, and prayer groups, positively swamp any critical sources. Yet the official judgment of the Catholic Church is clear: Medjugorje is rejected (officially, non constat de supernaturalitate). And yet Church leadership all the way up to Pope Francis treats the decades-sprawling phenomenon with a combination of kid gloves playing hot potato, to mix a metaphor.

The six seers have parlayed their so-called apparitions into consistently high sources of income, and the pilgrimage industry still rakes in millions each year off of naive, usually low information Catholics seeking solace or answers at the place.

Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, wrote the first full length treatment of Medjugorje in 1988, and a book length account in 2010, which is why I invited him to give us an overview of the sprawling saga from the beginning. I do so with the intention of alerting my fellow Catholics who may be unaware (most are) of the truth about the Church’s discernment of this oddly toxic phenomenon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 147 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:04.0	Welcome to this episode of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:06.0	Before I introduce the topic, I want to invite you to come to Germany.
0:09.0	We're going to the Alps Catholic Bavaria, Al Tauting, Regensburg. We're going to go into Austria to Salzburg
0:16.4	to see where the Sound of Music was filmed. We're going to end up in Oberamagow to see the live
0:21.4	passion play, which is put on every 10 years.
0:24.4	So it's happening next, May 17 through 25th.
0:27.8	Go to Patrickovin. Media slash pilgrimage and join us.
0:30.3	There's a few seats left.
0:31.5	We're not gonna do a big fat, you know, multi-bus tour.
0:35.0	This is a pilgrimage of faith and our spiritual director is the actor, capital A actor, that's the official term, of the canonization cause of Father Patrick Payton, the famous
0:44.8	Irish-born priest who said famously the family that prays together stays together.
0:49.9	So we want you to join us.
0:51.1	Father Willie Raymond is that spiritual director and this is going to be great.
0:55.1	I've never been to Germany, but our guest has.
0:57.9	One more time here's the link, Patrick coffin.media.media.
1:00.1	pilgrimage.
1:01.6	Today we're going to talk about the largest, most popular, unapproved, and I believe
1:08.8	unapprovable apparition in Catholic Church history. That's Mejogoria and now Bosnia Herzegovina. And we're going to talk with the author of a book that was my first kind of red pill in the direction of saying there's something seriously wrong here. The book is called
1:24.1	the midigory deception. Its author is E Michael Jones and he's here to talk about it. Be
1:28.4	right back.
1:29.4	Warning. A following podcast contains ideas and arguments that might challenge your worldview.
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