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Article: Marian apparitions meet ancient need.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- September 6, 1996
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The Vatican recently reaffirmed an earlier statement forbidding "official" pilgrimages to the site of Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The statement cited lack of proof that supernatural apparitions had occurred.
One wonders if the statement was based solely on fact: no celestial visions, no spinning sun, no rosaries turning gold. It's a pity the Vatican didn't probe deeper. One question remains unanswered: What hole in the heart drives people to come, at great personal expense and inconvenience, to out-of-the-way places where statues of Mary weep and heavenly images appear to overlay bleary photos?
There's always the political ...