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Card. Puljic: Medjugorje Commission to End It's Work in Late 2012
Te Deum Laudamus ^ | 2/15/12 | Diane Korzeniewski

Posted on 02/16/2012 7:04:41 AM PST by marshmallow

As Medjugorje's Bishop, Ratko Perić, has fended off insidious allegations recently made against his predecessor - that he was a tool of the communists - we learn that Cardinal Ruini's Medjugorje commission will end it's work by the end of 2012.

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The Italian News Agency, ASCA, is reporting that Cardinal Vinko Puljić, the Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Sarajevo), also a commission member, stated that the final report will be presented by Cardinal Ruini to Pope Benedict at year's end so that the Holy Father can render his judgment. Here's the actual news report, translated:

Cardinal Puljic: Report on Medjugorje ready before the end of 2012
14 February 2012 - 14:57

(ASCA): Rome, 14 Feb: The commission appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to evaluate the authenticity of the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje, led by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, is expected to present its concluding report before the end of 2012. "Within the year we want to finish our work and give our opinion to the Pope so that he may express his judgment," said Cardinal Vinko Puljic, archbishop of Sarajevo and member of the commission, during the press conference announcing the Sant'Egidio community's "Meeting for peace" which is to take place next September. "We cannot talk about what the commission is doing, because we are bound to secrecy", the cardinal explained: "Our work is continuing. But we need to finish it this year." (asp/mpd) (Translated by Richard Chonak)

That mirrors what the apostolic nuncio to Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH), Archbishop Allessandro D'Errico, said to the people of that nation on March 17, 2009. The nuncio, referring repeatedly to Medjugorje as, "a question" had this to say back then:

From personal experience, every time I met the Holy Father he had great interest in the question.......

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Theology
KEYWORDS: medjugorje

1 posted on 02/16/2012 7:04:47 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
...Cardinal Ruini's Medjugorje commission will end it's work by the end of 2012.

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Cardinal Ruini's Medjugorje commission will end it is work?

So hard to take a writer's work seriously when attention has not been paid to grammar and spelling.

2 posted on 02/16/2012 7:29:57 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: marshmallow

I predict many unhappy people when the final report is published. Satan will use this as another means to try and break up the Church.


3 posted on 02/16/2012 8:25:52 AM PST by JPII Be Not Afraid
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