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Sunday, July 1, 2007

Medjugorje

Permission denied – Pope’s preacher won't lecture in Medjugorje after bishop nixes plan
6/20/2007
Catholic News Service (www.catholicnews.com)

MOSTAR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNS) – The preacher of the papal household has withdrawn from plans to deliver a series of lectures in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, after the local bishop denied him permission to speak there.

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Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, who has been the pope's preacher since 1980, was to be the keynote speaker at the 12th International Seminar for Priests July 3-5 in Medjugorje, the site of thousands of alleged appearances of the virgin Mary.
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Gerry S said...

Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 8:21 PM
Subject: Catholic-Pages.com | Discussion Forum - Pope Benedict discusses Medjugorje with bishop


http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/medjugorje.htm

What the Church permits. As the already cited statements note, Catholics may go to Medjugorje. Such pilgrimages may even include priests acting as chaplains, as opposed to officially sponsoring them. Also, the Church has not suppressed discussion of Medjugorje, therefore, it is allowed. Common sense, however, says that Catholics on both sides of the Medjugorje issue should exercise prudence and charity in speaking of others who believe differently. Medjugorje is not a litmus test of orthodoxy, though every Catholic will have a moral obligation to accept the judgement of Rome, in the manner Pope Benedict explained, should it ever be rendered.

St. Augustine probably gave the simpliest and most helpful rule for all matters of the Church's life when he said (in my paraphrase):

In necessary things unity,
in undecided things freedom,
and in all things charity.

Answered by Colin B. Donovan, STL
http://www.catholic-pages.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=7660%20&whichpage=2

July 8, 2007 at 7:34:00 AM EDT

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