[davidtlig]

Is your sole purpose for being on this site to advocate for Medjugorje?

sorry, maybe I have misunderstood and that only anti-Medjugorje posts are allowed on 'Free Republic'?

I've just noticed an earlier comment:

The middle of the letter is private because that is where the personal apology is.

It is this kind of thing that takes my breath away! The middle of the letter is unpublished so THEREFORE that is where the personal apology is? Come on, I'm sure correspondents on the Free Republic are capable of better than that.

I'm sorry if I am coming across as an aggressive type but actually I'm not at all like that but all sense of fair play seems to leave people when the matter of Medjugorje comes up. Oh and yes, it was the posts about Medjugorje which introduced me to the 'Free Republic'. Is that bad?

[Servant of the Cross]

"The middle of the letter is private because that is where the personal apology is".

I concur with your viewpoint that this is an amazing leap of conjecture. There are also reports that the "middle" of the letter did not refer to Medjugorje at all.

I found this article interesting too: Austrian Church Official Rejects Rumour Against Cardinal Schonborn.

[markomalley]

sorry, maybe I have misunderstood and that only anti-Medjugorje posts are allowed on 'Free Republic'?

That is not what I said, now is it?

• Based upon your postings, to date, I'm not sure we're not dealing with a "one trick pony" here (thus the earlier query: Is your sole purpose for being on this site to advocate for Medjugorje?
• With a grand total of 14 days experience on FR, I don't think you know either AnAmericanMother or me well enough to categorize either of us a member of The anti-Medjugorje brigade or not...or, for that matter to imply it one way or the other.

Of course, if you come out in favor of the Bayside affair or the like, you may find at least me a part of that anti-Brigade...

With all due respect...

[Cronos]

David — we haven’t seen the full text of the letter; you cannot take what has been marked as the end of the letter to BE the apology. We simply don’t know if it was the only “apology” or if there was a lot of grovelling in between. So, saying “is that an apology” is a debate in circles. We should reserve judgement until we know more.