Update: directives on Medjugorje

by Richard Chonak

Bp. Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno in Bosnia and Herzegovina has sent letters to the pastor and a parochial vicar at Medjugorje, with specific directives about how they and the parish are not to promote the alleged apparitions of the place:

•that alleged messages and commentaries on them are not to be published;

•that prayers from the apparitions are not to be used publicly;

•the parish church is not to be called a "shrine", even privately;

•that foreign priests may not give conferences or retreats without permission of the bishop;

•foreign priests wishing to offer Mass must present a celebret from their diocese or order, and the information is to be recorded;

•a privately-built church has already been closed and is not to be used;

•unauthorized religious communities have no permission to set up residence;

•and about regulating several other forms of promotion of the alleged phenomenon...

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