EUROPE : MEDJUGORJE : CARDINAL MEETS WITH POPE ON INVESTIGATION

CROWNOFSTARS BLOG REPORT:
Commission head meets with Pope Benedict

Today, February 24, the Holy Father received in audience Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar general emeritus of His Holiness for the diocese of Rome.
‘Vatican Insider’ Andrea Tornielli says the meeting was to discuss the progress of the Medjugorje investigation.
This evening Pope Benedict XVI is also scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
Cardinal Ruini presides over the Holy See’s commission currently investigating the Medjugorje phenomenon and which, according to a recent Italian press report and a quote attributed to Cardinal Vinko Puljic who sits on the commission, should be concluded by the end of the year and presented to the CDF and the Pope for consideration.

This week it was reported that four of the Medjugorje visionaries, Ivan, Jakov, Marija and Mirjana gave evidence to the commission in Rome on Monday. All meetings with the visionaries have taken place in a hall of the CDF where the archives of the study group are kept.

The Holy See currently stands by the declaration made at the ordinary session of the Bishop’s Conference of Yugoslavia almost 21 years ago in April 1991, that “so far it cannot be affirmed that one is dealing with supernatural apparitions and revelations”

The Commission of that time said it would continue to keep up with and investigate the entire event in Medjugorje. However, with the break up of Yugoslavia into separate countries its last conference was held in 1993.
In July 2006 Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo announced that the Holy See had commissioned the Bosnia & Herzegovina bishops’ conference to begin another review into the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje with a particular emphasis on the question of shrine status which had been inferred by the Yugoslavia bishops’ conference. Two years went by with nothing seemingly undertaken and then in March 2008 it was confirmed that the matter of Medjugorje had been handed back to the Vatican and that the national commission no longer had plans to take action.
On March 17, 2010, it was announced that the Holy See was to set up its own commission to investigate the Medjugorje phenomenon, headed by the Italian cardinal Camillo Ruini.

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