2008 Q4 FReepathon. Target: $80,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $32,566
40%  
Woo hoo!! Over 40 percent!! We thank y'all very much!!

Keyword: marianapparitions

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Vatican disciplines ex-spiritual director to Medjugorje visionaries

    09/11/2008 9:51:25 AM PDT · by rrstar96 · 6 replies · 54+ views
    Catholic News Service ^ | September 5, 2008 | Simon Caldwell
    LONDON (CNS) -- The Vatican has authorized "severe cautionary and disciplinary measures" against a priest who served as spiritual director to the visionaries in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has written to Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, whose diocese covers Medjugorje, to inform him that they are investigating the case of Franciscan Father Tomislav Vlasic. The congregation has asked the bishop, for the good of the faithful, to inform the community of the canonical status of the Bosnian priest, whose actions automatically provoked Vatican sanctions. In a statement posted on the Web site of the...
  • [Catholic] Church Recognizes Virgin Mary Appearances in France

    05/05/2008 6:42:29 AM PDT · by rrstar96 · 33 replies · 19+ views
    The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune ^ | May 4, 2008 | The Associated Press
    PARIS (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop said Sunday that the church has officially recognized that the Virgin Mary appeared to a 17th-century shepherd girl in the French Alps. Speaking at Mass in remarks broadcast nationally on France-2 television, Monsignor Jean-Michel di Falco Leandri said he recognized the "supernatural origin" of the apparitions to 17-year-old Benoite Rencurel from 1664 to 1718.