Article: What's in a vision? (holy apparitions) (Horizons)

Holy apparitions can inspire faith. Frauds can test it

By midafternoon, St. James Catholic Church in the remote Yugoslav vilpilgrims-many of them from the United States, Canada and Australia. At precisely 5:40 p.m., silence falls over the sanctuary, broken only by the clicking and whirring of flash cameras aimed at the choir loft where two young women kneel, their eyes transfixed on a blank wall, their lips moving in silent prayer. In a few moments, the women emerge from the loft, bearing a new message from Our Lady of Medjugorje urging a deeper devotion to her Son and closer attention to peace, prayers and penance.

It is a scene that has been repeated ...

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