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From the interview with Msgr. Ratko Perić, Bishop of Mostar-Duvno, released to the “Crkva na kamenu” (The Church on the Rock), monthly pastoral bulletin of the Dioceses of Mostar-Duvno and Trebinje-Mrkan, nr. 4/2006, pp. 22-24, after his “visitatio Ad Limina” from 23 to 28 February 2006.
It has details about Medjugorje and the continuing Franciscan problem in his diocese.
Cnak: What were your impressions after your first meeting with the Pope?
Bishop Peric: - It was my first encounter with him as Pope but not the first with Joseph Ratzinger who previously was the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. ... Click here for the rest of the interview ...
Bishop Peric's website address is:
http://www.cbismo.hr/
It includes an informative English-language article on Medjugorje.
The Medjugorje Deception by E. Michael Jones.
This is a very powerful book dealing with the events surrounding the alleged apparitions in Medjugorje, in which the author demonstrates beyond question that Medjugorje is the greatest religious fraud of modern times.
"Medjugorje after Twenty-Two Years - The Definitive History" by Michael Davies
www.mdaviesonmedj.com contains the fifth edition of his book which gives the most definitive English-language account available of the events which have been taking place since 1981 at Medjugorje in Herzegovina. Michael's wife Marija, who is Croatian, and his son Adrian, who is bi-lingual, have given him considerable help by translating material from the original Croatian, and the two bishops of the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno during the past twenty-years have made all the necessary official documentation available to him.
Latest News
Vatican drafts guidelines to combat new boom in fraudulent revelations
By Simon Caldwell of the Catholic Herald (England)
THE VATICAN is planning to warn Catholics of the dangers of believing in bogus claims of heavenly apparitions in the wake of an explosion of so-called private revelations around the world. - Click here for details
AUSTRALIA - Archbishop George Pell of Sydney has refused to allow Vicka Mijatovic-Ivankovic, 38, one of the six alleged Medjugorje visionaries, to speak in any Church building during a visit to his country, because her claims have been refuted by the bishops of former Yugoslavia. The archbishop feared that if he allowed her to address Catholics from Church property he would be giving official sanction to claims that were rejected by Mrs Mijatovic-Ivankovic's local bishops, whose function it was to determine their authenticity. [Catholic Herald - quoted in Catholic Family Newsletter 3 November 2002]
Resources for alleged apparitions at Medjugorje
French Bishop, Henri Brincard: a critical report on the events at Medjugorje and the question of pilgrimages:http://www.petersnet.net/research/retrieve.cfm?RecNum=4314
Latest official Medjugorje news (Oct 2001) - In an extremely important development the highest ranking church official in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Cardinal Vuljic, has commented on aspects of the "Medjugorje" phenomenon in the presence of the Holy Father, at the current Synod of Bishops in Rome.
Answers about Medjugorje web site
Medjugorje: the State of the Question This extract from an interview with Mgr. Ratko Peric, Bishop of Mostar, by Yves Chiron was published in Présent, 25 January 1997. The interviewer was particularly anxious to obtain clarification from the Bishop concerning the claim by propagandists for Medjugorje that superior authorities in the Church will overturn the verdict --non constat de supernaturalitate (that there is no evidence of any supernatural happenings at Medjugorje).
Bishop of Medjugorje says Apparitions not supernatural In this letter to Mr. Boutet, the ordinary of the Diocese of Mostar, in which Medjugorje is located, says he judges the alleged apparitions to be proven false.
Holy See cautions Faithful on Medjugorje
Documents on Medjugorje from Mgr. Ratko Peric, Bishop of Mostar
Conclusion to "Mirror of Justice" a book by Mgr Ratko Peric, Bishop of Mostar
CRITERIA FOR DISCERNING APPARITIONS: REGARDING THE EVENTS OF MEDJUGORJE - Part 1
CRITERIA FOR DISCERNING APPARITIONS: REGARDING THE EVENTS OF MEDJUGORJE - Part 2
Confirmation Homily by Bishop Peric with references to Medjugorje highlighted in red
Homily by Bishop Peric, given in Medjugorje, in which he speaks of the disobedience of the local Franciscans
COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE BISHOP'S CONFERENCE OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
A communiqué Regarding the illegitimate bishop and the illegitimate Confirmation
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Alleged apparitions at Medjugorje