Editor writes... It is difficult to keep up with the new "apparitions" across the globe. The latest craze, I'm told, is the "Divine Will" - click here for more on that... St Paul did warn the Church of the danger of such distractions, when he charged Timothy the first Bishop of Ephesus, to preach the Faith...
Below, extracts from Fr Thaddeus Doyle's January editorial, in The Curate's Diary. Some years ago, this priest launched a series of articles attacking Fatima priest, Father Nicholas Gruner, RIP, to which Catholic Truth (and the Fatima Center) responded vigorously. Click here to read an Open Letter to Fr Thaddeus Doyle from Christopher Ferrara, correcting...
The article below, first published in the July 2019 edition of the Catholic Truth newsletter - available to read online, with footnotes, here - is intended to cast light on the claims of the author of My Heart Will Triumph that Our Lady is appearing to her at Medjugorje. Catholics should only want to...
The Editor writes... The stated judgment of the local, investigating Bishop, the Church authority on alleged apparitions, is that the claimed "apparitions" at Medjugorje are not true Note: the Vatican investigation was launched only because the defiant "seers" refused to accept the decision of their Bishop. Still, we find "pilgrimages" being organised against...
Email from a reader this morning.... CDF does its job and says Medjugorje is false, and according to this report Pope Francis over-ruled that and 'saved' Medjugorje. Sadly, it has a ring of truth about it. Ed: if you agree that the following report "has a ring of truth about it" tell us! From Gloria TV Chiara...
Extracts below From the Athanasius of Mostar to Henryk of Medjugorje Introduction A news item was published recently in several media reports that the retired bishop of Warsawa-Praga and archbishop ad personam Henryk Hoser, embarked upon his assignment as the Apostolic Visitor for Medjugorje. The very information itself has caused a lot of reactions in...
Medjugorje: the devil's answer to Fatima... "I think it’s possible to recognize the authenticity of the first [seven] apparitions as proposed by the Ruini commission,” [Archbishop Henryk] Hoser said. “Besides, it is difficult to get another verdict, because it’s difficult to believe that six seers will lie for 36 years. What they say has been...
"The Ruini Report": If Only It Were a Joke The Anti-Fatima Apparition Gains Ground by Christopher A. Ferrara May 18, 2017 The findings of the long-awaited “Ruini Report” of the Ruini Commission (named after its chairman, Cardinal Camillo Ruini), concerning the validity of the so-called Marian apparitions at Medjugorje that have supposedly been going on since...
Bishop Peric: "the woman who appears" behaves quite differently from the true Mary... She often does not speak first, she has a strange laugh, she disappears after certain questions and then returns: she obeys the 'visionaries' and priests to come down from the hill to the church, though reluctantly. She is not sure how...
THE EPONYMOUS FLOWER reports : 'Cardinal Vinko Puljic, Archbishop of Sarajevo and member of the Pontifical Commission of Inquiry, which is mandated to study the phenomenon of Medjugorje, said to have "recommended" to the pope to come to a decision on Medjugorje only on "administrative" aspects, but not on the "phenomena" and messages. [The...
