Confidential documents of the Holy See seem to contain important details on what happens to Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina which for years has been a destination for Marian pilgrimages. Forty years after the first alleged apparitions of the Mother of Christ in that locality, the card in question, drawn up by a Commission pontiffs of inquiry, attest that there would not have been there “no miraculous healing“. The village of the former Yugoslavia continues to exert a strong appeal to believers, with estimates that speak of at least 25 million pilgrims who have come to Medjugorje over the course of all these years.
Documents containing this conclusion are revealed in the reporter’s new book David Murgia Process to Medjugorje (Rubettino editions). In fact, the author reviews all the secret and unpublished reports produced by the Pontifical Commission led by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, who has investigated Medjugorje in recent years. In its activity aimed at shedding light on the mystery in question, this investigating body has acquired, Murgia points out, strictly confidential reports on the alleged miracles, minutes of interrogations and inspections carried out in the Bosnian locality, medical reports, audio cassettes and even “dossier of the secret services“.
After years of work and collecting all kinds of elements potentially useful for investigations, the Commission has established, the author points out, that there would be no certified miracles attributable to the Marian apparitions in Medjugorje. Of the ten cases of presumed miraculous healing submitted to the medical council of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, we read in the book cited, only five were examined because they were considered reliable; of these, 4 cases were actually subjected to an in-depth examination because they were probably considered unexplainable. However, only two cases were eventually discussed because they were related and accompanied by serious medical documentation. However, nobody, the Commission certifies, is to be considered scientifically inexplicable.
Murgia, who has been curating the investigation program on mystical phenomena on Tv2000 for years Investigation at the Borders of the Sacred, then presented the data contained in his latest literary effort as exclusively useful for strengthening the critical sense of readers, without any intent to mock those who believe in Our Lady of Medjugorje: “In my opinion, these documents can be very helpful in forming one’s own discernment. There are some totally unpublished extracts, I repeat, never published, and in some shocking ways that could better help the faithful, as happened with myself, who seek the truth, both those who believe and those who do not believe in Medjugorje. Just to avoid unnecessary controversy and some witch hunts I decided to remove all personal references present. We are not interested in pointing the finger at anyone “. Among the curiosities contained in the new essay, there is also the fact that, according to the author, several agencies of intelligence they would continue, decades after the first apparently inexplicable phenomena, to control what happens in the small country of apparitions.
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