Pope Benedict XVI Protected the Medjugorje Apparitions

In this video we share Pope Benedict XVI Protected the Medjugorje Apparitions.

What were Pope Benedict XVI's actions to prevent her enemies from destroying Medjugorje from within the Church?

Pope Benedict XVI was perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian of the twentieth century and perhaps one day he will be named a Doctor of the Church.

But few know that he significantly accompanied the Mejuhgoria phenomenon from the beginning, although in a hidden way.

In the same year of 1981, when the apparitions began, he was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith by Pope John Paul II.

And for more than 3 decades he was the preponderant figure, to mold the treatment that the Church would give to these apparitions, safeguarding them so that they would follow their course.

Here we will talk about how Pope Benedict XVI actively protected the apparitions of Medjugorje in a covert way, so that his influence was not aborted by the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Joseph Ratzinger came from Bavaria, a region known for its Marian devotion.

And during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II he gave the theological interpretation of the Marian phenomenon, which Pope John Paul II would later express with emotional gestures.

He emphasized the importance of Mary and Her role in the life of Jesus and the faith of the Church.

Without Mary, there is no Jesus.

And he said that Marian dogmas are the guarantee that Jesus is God and also a true man.

I would say that Mary is the link between the Old and New Testaments.
That is figure, image and model of the Church.

That in it femininity shines in all its fullness and also the meaning of human life.

And he points out our destiny through the dogma of his Assumption to Heaven.

He admitted to the journalist Vittorio Messori that he read the Third Secret of Fatima, after the attack on Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981.

This was just before the beginning of Our Lady's Medjugorje appearances.

And in practical terms Cardinal Ratzinger always recommended patience about Medjugorje, which in the end was the right position.

He pointed out its fruits and the need for orthodoxy in religious practice, regarding preaching, evangelization, sacraments, etc.

But his relationship with Medjugorje was much deeper than is known.

Father James Mulligan recounted a meeting in Linz between Cardinal Ratzinger and Father Slavko Barbaric, Spiritual Director of the visionaries of Medjugorje.

Where Cardinal Ratzinger assured him that "the Church does not want to repress everything that is bringing good spiritual fruits."

And Mulligan also reported that Cardinal Ratzinger would have visited Medjugorje incognito in 1985, according to information from taxi drivers and other townspeople.

An Irish pilgrim named Mary E Smith, who was with a friend named Anita Curtis, remembers that they were sitting on the steps of the sacristy and Cardinal Ratzinger walked towards them at a distance of half a meter.

He lowered his head and turned it towards the wall of the church, as if he didn't want to be recognized by the pilgrims.

He was dressed in civilian clothes: white shirt with short sleeves open at the collar and light gray pants.

There are reports of three visits.

It is known that the Vatican has regularly sent observers to Mejugoria.

And Monsignor Edmond Farhat, a former apostolic nuncio in Austria, said that he had spoken to Ratzinger when he was already Benedict XVI, in 2009, about his pilgrimage to Medjugorje and said that the Pope was delighted.

But the most significant contribution of Pope Benedict XVI may have been the protection he gave to Medjugorje, so that she would not be condemned by the bishopric of Mostar, and thus run the risk of getting lost in history, as has happened to so many Marian apparitions.

And he always did it with a low profile and reflective, as was his characteristic.

In 1982, the local bishop, Monsignor Pavao Zanic, created a commission to study the apparitions of Medjugorje.

According to Father Tomislav Pervan, Provincial of the Franciscans of Herzegovina, in his book "Medjugorje - A prophetic sign for the world," he says that Bishop Zanic moderated the work of the commission and worked to obtain a negative verdict on Mejuhgoria.

He was influenced by the dossier that the communists of the former
Yugoslavia had made, to discredit the apparitions.

The result of the commission was that its supernaturalness was not recorded but that it was simply a human phenomenon.

He gave Cardinal Ratzinger the result and expressly asked him to ban everything around Medjugorje, saying that everything was just fraud, superstition and popular deception.

He also demanded a ban on pilgrimages.

Ratzinger studied the documentation carefully and did not accept the committee's vote.

[ffreed]

I am visiting medjugorje this August! I hope I will believe because am scared myself to believe because it isn't approved by the church. May God forgive me for going . But I will. I will update my experience here.🙏🏽

[URSENIORUTUBER]

Thank you for supporting the validity of Our Holy Mother Mary’s appearances in Medjugorje …….through this revealing and insight video. Pope Benedict was a very good Shepherd and I do agree that one day he will be regarded as both a Saint and a Doctor of the Church. May the Queen of Peace remain always in your heart.

[yvobalcer]

God bless the late pope for what he did.

[livingpurgatory]

I saw a Daily Mail article years ago where Benedict XVI asked the faithful NOT TO go to Medjugorje. Seems it's buried now by the ma sons

[andrewangelopacheco]

Pope Benedict XVl was clearly against Medjugorje. His words were, "How can anyone believe that the Madonna would appear 25, 000 times to just one group in a short time?" The first spiritual director of the children was sent to a Monastery and ordered never to speak on the subject of Medjugorje again or face excommunication. That Franciscan priest left the Monastery and began again speaking on Medjugorje, he was excommunicated. A family brought back from Medjugorje a statue of Our Lady to Rome. The statue allegedly wept. The Bishop approved this as a supernatural occurrence claiming he himself witnessed Our Lady weep. After Rome investigated it was found to be a hoax, the whole ordeal was condemned, the Bishop was excommunicated. Pope Benedict gave orders that priests were not to lead pilgrimages to that place. Pope Benedict in an official statement said that in the investigation, "no supernatural event ever took place." There is much more from Pope Benedict's disapproval of Medjugorje. The Church has certain criteria for judging a alleged supernatural events. One is Obedience, Medjugorje failed that one big time. Another is Simony, the children in the beginning were poor but now all are very wealthy, they failed that one as well. I don't remember off hand the other criteria but I'm sure Medjugorje failed all of them. Why is Pope Benedict XVl's death being taken advantage of? Why would the Vatican destroy 10 years of personal notes of the Holy Father? Benedict was a writer and he wrote a lot.

[QuigleyArbuthnot]

Pope Benedict XVI supported Medjugorje in a "hidden" way?
In other words he didn't support those so-called apparitions at all.
The priest who was the spiritual director of the alleged visionaries from the beginning, Tomislav Vlašić, was defrocked by Pope Benedict XVI then ex-communicated by the Pope when he continued in his disobedience and pretended to be an active priest in good standing in Medjugorje even after he was defrocked.
The supposed apparition was defending this priest when he defied his bishop, at the same time Tomislav Vlašić was forcing himself on nuns, getting at least one of them pregnant.
It is a disgraceful slur on the name of a great Pope like Benedict XVI to claim he was in any way secretly supporting the demonic hoax in Medjugorje.