{"id":215,"date":"2009-09-08T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/what-happened-at-medjugorje.html"},"modified":"2009-09-08T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:34:00","slug":"what-happened-at-medjugorje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/what-happened-at-medjugorje.html","title":{"rendered":"What happened at Medjugorje?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the feast of Mary’s birth — which the apparition in Medjugorje claims actually occurred in August, not September — a writer at First Things offers his thoughts<\/a>: <\/p>\n

At Medjugorje, for almost thirty years, many have seen a demonstration of Hercegovinian militancy, and even of heresy. Once the local bishop rejected the visionaries, priests sent to the area by the regular ecclesiastical authorities were beaten up, prayer was held in local churches without the presence of clergy, and, some allege, the Medjugorje group was on the road to schism from the Roman church.<\/p>\n

Serbs have loudly denounced Medjugorje as a Croatian conspiracy, while Bosnian Muslims have tended to remain subdued about it, at least in public. Local Muslims are mostly silent, especially after a war that took so many lives. But many admit they perceived in Medjugorje a Croatian ultranationalist production.<\/p>\n

More could be said about the matter, but Benedict XVI appears to have made up his mind about Medjugorje. And many Croats, as well as Muslims and other Bosnians, are likely to quietly welcome his action. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’ll want to read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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