{"id":6709,"date":"2006-07-24T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/a-new-look-at-medjugorje.html"},"modified":"2006-07-24T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T11:00:37","slug":"a-new-look-at-medjugorje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/a-new-look-at-medjugorje.html","title":{"rendered":"A new look at Medjugorje?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNS reports:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, announced a commission would be formed to review the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje and pastoral provisions for the thousands of pilgrims who visit the town each year. <\/p>\n

"The commission members have not been named yet," Cardinal Puljic told <\/span>Catholic News Service<\/span><\/a> in a July 24 telephone interview. "I am awaiting suggestions from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" on theologians to appoint. <\/p>\n

"But this commission will be under the (Bosnian) bishops’ conference" as is the usual practice with alleged apparitions, he said. <\/p>\n

The cardinal said he did not expect the commission to be established until sometime in September because of the summer holidays. <\/p>\n

He said the primary task of the commission would be to review a 1991 report from the region’s bishops that concluded, "It cannot be affirmed that these matters concern supernatural apparitions or revelations." <\/p>\n

In addition, he said, the commission would be asked to review pastoral provisions that forbid official diocesan and parish pilgrimages to Medjugorje, while at the same time allowing priests to accompany groups of Catholics in order to provide the sacraments and spiritual guidance. <\/p>\n

When asked if the new commission was the idea of the doctrinal congregation or of the bishops’ conference, Cardinal Puljic said, "I would rather not answer that question." <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Diane from the Te Deum blogspot noted this in the Croatian press several days ago, and has been on the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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