he young Croat-born cleric known as the stigmata priest is due at a Bensonhurst church next week, and the pastor says he's getting nervous.Posted on 03/05/2002 4:15:56 AM PST by damnlimey
Stigmata Priest Has
Church Buzzing
By JOYCE SHELBY
Daily News Staff Writer
he young Croat-born cleric known as the stigmata priest is due at a Bensonhurst church next week, and the pastor says he's getting nervous.
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| Rev. Zlatko Sudac |
"We're getting a lot of calls," said Msgr. David Cassato, pastor of St. Athanasius Catholic Church. "Everyone wants to meet him and have him pray over them because of his giftedness. I hear he brings in very big crowds."
The Rev. Zlatko Sudac, 31, has attracted large audiences since he arrived on a Mass tour of the metropolitan area more than five months ago.
Last month, thousands went to Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Greenwich Village, where Sudac celebrated two Masses instead of the one that had been scheduled.
Incredible Claims Made
Sudac claims to have supernatural gifts, including stigmata, or marks, on his body that resemble those on the body of Jesus Christ when he was crucified.
The priest claims that the marks bleed spontaneously and that he can heal, levitate, be in two places at once and know the future.
Sudac does not give interviews, but the Rev. Giordano Belanich, a priest in the Newark Archdiocese, said Sudac received the stigmata on his forehead in 1999, a year after his ordination, and other gifts followed soon after.
Cassato said: "I heard about him just recently. A friend who knows of his work called and asked if I would be interested in having him come to our church. I said, 'Of course.' I thought it would be a nice Lenten reflection to have a spiritual uplift for all of us."
Last month, a Long Island church canceled an appearance by Sudac, citing limited sanctuary space.
Cassato said he had not met Sudac but did not question accounts of the stigmata. "It's a gift," he said. "It's a very unusual, extraordinary gift that has been given at times in our church history — to St. Francis of Assisi, to Padre Pio."
The Catholic Church has permitted Sudac to continue his tour until May, when he returns to his homeland, but has remained silent on his sensational claims.
Frank DeRosa, spokesman for the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, said: "From what I understand, Father Sudac is a priest in good standing. He's been speaking at various parishes in the metropolitan area, and there's been a rather substantial following.
"There's no indication he's been anything but a good priest. As far as the stigmata is concerned, there has been no position taken on that," DeRosa said.
Cassato said Sudac would celebrate a Mass and conduct a healing service March 13.
Original Publication Date: 3/5/02
If he really wants to be like Padre Pio, he'll STFU and retire to a monastery.
AB
Dan
(How Can I Know God? might be helpful)
Dan
Dan
I'm telling you there is no New Testament authority for labeling all "signs and wonders" bogus, as you apparently just did.
Your post was, at best, imprecise, and possibly just ignorant. Of the Word of God.
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AB
And another thought. There's an old wrestler's trick, where, before they go into the ring they'll take a razor blade and make a short, shallow cut on an arm, or maybe the forehead, and quickly brush on fast drying collodian which seals the cut, so it doesn't bleed right away. Later, in the ring, a little stress on the skin will open up the cut and the blood will flow. Carney trick.
I can't believe the Xlinton's haven't tried that one yet.
(You know, guys like you kill me, BTW. Your tone is SO lofty... so much so that actual discussion of evidence is beneath you! Ay, yi yi.)
Dan
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