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The Patrick Madrid Show

What Is The Vatican’s Stance On The Alleged Marian Apparitions At Medjugorje?

The Patrick Madrid Show

Relevant Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Caller Elaine asks Patrick about the Vatican’s stance on the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now to Elaine, who's listening in Atlanta.

0:03.7

I wanted to ask you about Medigoria, this recent statement by the Pope or by the Vatican, I'm not sure which, but I'm a little confused.

0:14.5

I guess I've heard a lot of negative things about Medigoria that make me think, okay, if there's something supernatural going on

0:23.4

there and it's not the good guys, you know, maybe it's the bad guys. I don't know. I just, I'm kind of

0:30.0

curious about where we stand now or where the Vatican stands now. I understand. Well, the thing is

0:36.5

that it's, as with other things in the church today, there's a certain

0:41.5

ambiguity about Megigoria that has never been, like, fully clarified. Its status has been,

0:49.6

it's been ambiguous. I'll put it that way. From the beginning, the bishops of Mostar, the one after the other, were opposed to Medjugoria and even condemned it.

1:01.0

And so from that point forward, there has been just a controversy about, well, maybe those bishops, for whatever reasons, they were biased.

1:09.9

So then there was an appeal to the Pope. Can we have a

1:13.1

commission? There was a commission. And it's been going on for a long time. The alleged apparitions

1:17.5

in Medjugoria began in the early 80s. So we're talking about like maybe 1981, if I remember

1:24.1

correctly. It's now been opened up, as you said, this announcement was made yesterday,

1:28.6

I believe, that the Pope lifted what had been a restriction against formal pilgrimages to Medjugoria,

1:37.3

and that has been lifted. So I guess those will be starting up again. I don't know that it ever

1:41.9

really died down very much in the meantime.

1:50.2

So it's news in the Medjugoria people are really excited about this because they believe that this is an authentic apparition site. So it's a big day for them. And you asked about, you know,

1:57.1

what about this? And I mentioned just before the break that I wanted to talk a little bit

2:01.0

more about this. So first let me make sure that I answered your first question. Was there anything

2:05.7

more to that question about Medjugoria that you wanted to ask? No, that's exactly right. I'm just,

2:11.6

well, you know, I feel like it's pretty certain that supernatural things have been happening there.

2:20.3

And so my concern, I guess,

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