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WITH THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN WHO PLAYS FOR THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, WE REJOICE THE FALSE MADONNA OF MEDJUGORIE ESCAPE BEFORE THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMY

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The coronavirus pandemic was needed to expose these pseudo-visionaries who for over thirty years have been abusing popular credulity with banal and repetitive messages given by this self-styled postman Madonna, while they reaped business and got rich, while leading lives far from Christian. Or to put it in one example: just think of the husband of one of the visionaries who gave birth to a daughter with her lover, after having built a couple of hotels with his wife in constant contact with this postman Madonna. And it does not appear that the postman Madonna ever told her: “Dear daughter, try to get your husband back, before I get into some bad trouble, because it would be detrimental to the credibility of the whole market that you have set up!”.

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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debates on the phenomenon of Medjugorie a Straight and Reverse

(D)urante the Triduo Pasquale I didn't go around television studios, as on social some wrote. Connected from my home I attended the program Straight and Reverse then aired on Holy Thursday [episode of 9 April WHO starting at the minute 02:30:00]. Like this, at the gates of Easter, we went back to discussing the Holy Masses celebrated without the presence of the faithful in this pandemic period, with us priests committed to offering suffrages for the souls of the dead and pleading for God's mercy for the living and especially for the sick [see also the episode of 26 March, WHO by the minute 02:05:15].

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During that televised debate I got into a fight with the journalist Paolo Brosio, with whom I had previously discussed in another episode animating myself on the speech of Our Lady of Medjugorie [episode of 5 March WHO by the minute 02:09:45]. Now, both as regards the suspension of the sacred public liturgies and as regards the false Madonna of the self-styled seers of Medjugorie, I wish to clarify what cannot be clarified in a television broadcast. Indeed, if under this program or any other, start a philosophical discourse, metaphysical and theological, the conductor should interrupt me. Let it be clear that I myself, if I conducted a transmission like that of my friend Paolo Del Debbio, I would not hesitate to interrupt a guest, if he took the bribe to certain very specialized speeches. Already in the past I explained in an article of mine what are the rules of a great television company that lives and stands on advertising and listening [see WHO]. So that, who participates in certain programs, must pass within short spaces, with simple and immediate language, some messages, but no more than this is possible.

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Dispelling all’areopago with the Athenians, what style and language the Blessed Apostle Paul used? A language they understand, as evidenced by his speech [cf. At 17, 22-34]. Definitely, as the great communicator he was, we can deduce that he combined an appropriate oratory style with a gesture suitable for that place and for that audience, both Greeks were influenced by the culture of their theater, to body language, to the tone of voice and so on.

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In these days of lay catto-schizophrenia, the topic “incontrovertible” of justification for those who oppose the suspension of sacred public celebrations is that «… you can go shopping in supermarkets but you can't go to Sunday Mass ». In this way we try to say that for a Christian the spiritual goods should be higher than the material ones and that for man it should be more important to save his immortal soul, instead of saving your corruptible body in this world. We postpone the fact that the immortal soul is enclosed in the mortal body and that the Church, after the cessation of persecutions against Christians of the first centuries, he founded hospitals and hospitalizations for the sick, elderly and needy, what this previously explained in my other articles [see, WHO, WHO], but as is well known, there is no worse deaf than someone who does not want to hear …

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… according to this incorrect definition given by Paolo Brosio, who in this made himself the spokesman of a widespread feeling, the Church would bow to materialism and the principles of utilitarianism, therefore to the logic of this world. Needless to say, for me a priest it is unacceptable for a lay Catholic, in the context of a public broadcast that reaches millions of listeners, you contest an entire episcopal college on the basis of “I feel … I think … I lived …”. If therefore I am present I have the place to defend the bishops and the measures they have taken, because they are the successors of the Blessed Apostles and the Pastors of the Church, not the “I feel … I think … I lived …” of the emotional Paolo Brosio. Of course: it would be absurd to deny - and especially from a subject like me - that a sad and large slice of clergy has fallen for some decades into a doctrinal crisis that has generated a frightening moral crisis. Nor could I ever deny that such a pathology is the result of the worst modernist heresies that have penetrated the Church for decades to its highest levels. I can therefore denounce the mediocrity and pastoral inadequacies of our bleak shepherds - something I have done often and severely with books and articles [see WHO] —, but I would never question their apostolic authority and obedience to them in any case for a single moment, even to bishops burdened by the worst pastoral limitations, doctrinal and moral.

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Paolo Brosio's reasoning is therefore false because it contradicts above all the basic logical and metaphysical principles of deposit of credit. We explain and clarify everything: it is true that spiritual goods are superior to material goods, but they are just because of a higher order, which the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church teach us, from Sant’Agostino to San Tommaso d’Aquino. Therefore these two goods, material and spiritual, they cannot be put on the same level, less than ever compared, until reaching a true aberration which constitutes the worst contempt for logic and metaphysics, that is, to contrast supermarkets and churches, or say that you can go to the tobacconist's to buy cigarettes but not to church to receive Holy Communion. To these aberrant and illogical theses on an exquisitely metaphysical level, accusations are added to the Italian government and to what many now define as "the Italian Episcopal Conference serves political power".

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The fideistic-spiritualist thesis of Paolo Brosio, he ends up falling back and drowning in that bitter materialism that he would like to condemn in the name of a faith that is not such, but that is only a fideism from which a magical-utilitarian concept of the sacraments of grace is generated. It is not by chance, the great gateway to materialism, often it is that false faith animated by emotional and irrational devotionism. While faith requires reason and reason requires faith, as a school head teacher taught, the Holy Doctor of the Church Anselmo d'Aosta.

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Maybe I get angry with Paolo Brosio because he dislikes me? Never! I feel tenderness for him and I hope that in his error he is animated by good intentions, not because he too, like the characters we will talk about below, between conversions and talking madonnas its market has been created. Above all I would like to be able to help him both as a priest and as a theologian. If I got angry, it's because he damages the souls of simple people, however, in a moment of great confusion, using the notoriety and public visibility it has. Because of this, I yelled at him.

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Then apply the logic “You can go to the supermarket and in tobacconists but not at Mass », it means applying a lower logic to a higher order metaphysical reality than, as such, consequently it has superior resources, starting from the omnipotence of God. This way of reasoning is grossly illogical to the point that it would make all the hostile to religiosity pale, from Tito Lucrezio Caro to Karl Marx who would comment: “Neither had we ever gone that far!”.

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These aberrant concepts come to life when emotional-fideists, the when theologi do it yourself they speak of the Church and sacraments without being animated by the faith that transcends, but moved by the subjective-emotional element, thus ending up in forms of fetishism. At that point the sacraments change into something magical, superstitious, but above all of materialist and utilitarian, or worse in a right due. What this I think I can say, if, as I may delude myself, I have really learned something about sacramental dogmatics and the history of dogma, but above all as a person who has received training from skilled masters for years and years, which are indispensable for an authentic journey of faith, then proceed to theological speculations, but above all to grow in the experience of authentic faith.

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In front of the absurd "logic" based on the workhorse of certain irrational emotions: “Let us go shopping at the supermarket … you can go to tobacconists to buy cigarettes … but don't go to Mass, which is far more important!», San Tommaso Aquino, which was also nicknamed the dumb ox, would have screamed much more than me, roughly like when he tried to set fire to his monumental work screaming: «Everything is straw, everything is straw!», after having had a vision and thus perceived more closely the mystery of God.

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In his disarming ignorance Paolo Brosio does not even know what it is fthe catholic nor what is a path of authentic conversion, to the point of getting in “contraposition” with an entire Episcopal College that has decided to suspend public liturgical celebrations during this pandemic period, beginning in the transmission of the 9 April: «… I absolutely don't agree!». Well we must remind Paolo Brosio that bishops and priests, however unworthy sinners, received by mystery of grace a mandate which proceeds by supernatural order and which crosses the squalid and immoral miseries of our human persons, up to often making us even the worst scandals. Christ was given to us to lead the People of God, not to the People of God sent to guide his Shepherds. It is not by chance, in the previous episode, twice I reminded him: "… I'm a minister in sacred and from the Church I received the precise mandate to teach, sanctify and guide the People of God, you as a layman, what mandate you received from the Church?» [episode of 5 March WHO, minute 02:09:45]. It follows therefore that Paolo Brosio, who is an emotional-madonnolatra-fideista, he doesn't even know what obedience to faith is, which prejudices the true Christian experience in him, because his being is completely folded on the emotional “I feel … I think … I lived …”, ergo what I feel, I think and I lived is authentic faith and, anyone who dares to contradict me, even if it were a bishop, a priest or theologian who knows something about it, is an enemy of “my” faith.

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Within the perverse logic described so far it happens that, anyone who does not accept the apparitions and messages given to the self-styled seers by the self-styled Madonna of Medjugorie, he is a blasphemer, starting from all the Bosnian bishops who have always opposed the authenticity of these apparitions. It is not by chance, always in the first of these television debates I had the 5 March, Paolo Brosio came to the point of defaming the late Bishop of Mostar, S. AND. Mons. Pavao Žanić [1918-2000] accusing him of being an emissary of the old communist regime. It is a false slander put around by the fanatic fanatics of this false Madonna who appeared on command, as that Bishop said shortly after the beginning of the alleged apparitions and as the Bishops of that region repeat today, who never believed in the authenticity of the apparitions, continuing to express unanimously in the following three decades with negative judgments, starting from the current Bishop of the Diocese of Mostar, S. AND. Mons. Ratko Perić, than in a relationship in defense of its predecessor, insolent by fanatics of Paolo Brosio's ream, in very recent times, In the 2017, he sternly states:

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«It is not worthy of the “fortune tellers” fare, as they have done since the early days of “appearances”, very disturbing pronouncements, that do not correspond to the truth but deceive the faithful " [See text in Italian translation on the official website of the Diocese of Mostar, WHO].

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From all this it follows that the consequence of fideism is fanaticization, which can reach up to the most extreme forms: the demonization of the opponent and the destruction of his credibility. To get an idea just read what they spilled on me on social media [see WHO], including people who live on the Medjugorie market and who blame me for what I have never said, without ever taking care to read what I wrote with theological and ecclesiological precision on the subject of this phenomenon, which I don't believe in and which I am free not to believe until the Church tells me otherwise [see WHO].

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Paolo Brosio would have become authentically Christian, but above all he would have really converted, if instead of the bananas of the self-styled seers of Medjugorie he had listened to the pagan Aristotle, whose thinking, together with that of the pagan Plato, it was then used as a tool by the great Holy Fathers of the Church to speculate on the arcane mysteries of God and on the Incarnation of the Word of God made man. Indeed, to authentic paths of faith, the Aristotelian law principle is applied which is "reason devoid of passion". That means: if we are not free from human passions or humors, we cannot transcend, always remaining within those limits which constitute an insurmountable brake so that the arcane mysteries of faith can be penetrated, proceeding through reason: Faith and Reason.

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When I screamed that the Madonna of Medjugorie has finally fled after thirty years of self-styled theaters fortune tellers, it was only to go to the heart of the problem, transmitting a concept through a hyperbole typical of Pauline preaching, making it understandable to the public that followed from home, explaining animatedly that for the first time in the history of the Church we had a Madonna who escaped during a pandemic. In this way the so-called Madam has widely contradicted the entire Mariology, because the intercession of the Virgin Mary is attributed to the sudden cessation of the great plague of 1347, the churches built in the following years prove it, for the most part dedicated as a sign of gratitude to Mater Dei. And still today, medical historians and virologists, have not been able to explain how that pandemic stopped suddenly after exterminating about half of the European population. Can you imagine the Madonna who in 1571 had fled during the battle of Lepanto when the Muslims arrived? Instead, precisely at his intercession, the victory of the Holy League is attributed, to the point that the Holy Pontiff Pius V instituted the feast of Santa Maria delle Vittorie, recognizing that that victory was due to the powerful intercession of the Mater Dei …

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The coronavirus pandemic was needed to expose these pseudo-visionaries who for over thirty years have been abusing popular credulity with banal and repetitive messages given by this self-styled postman Madonna, while they reaped business and got rich, while leading lives far from Christian. Or to put it in one example: just think of the husband of one of the visionaries who gave birth to a daughter with her lover, after having built a couple of hotels with his wife in constant contact with this postman Madonna. And it does not appear that the postman Madonna ever told her: “Dear daughter, try to get your husband back, before I get into some bad trouble, because it would be detrimental to the credibility of the whole market that you have set up!”. Honestly, I don't know if her husband is a lover and her lover, the child, they called her Immaculate in honor of the Blessed Virgin, so I stop at this example without going any further, about these characters on which Paolo Brosio built his faith after a dazzling conversion that, I repeat, it was nothing more than an emotional movement to be analyzed in the psychiatric setting, more than in light of the great conversions of history that have taken place in the many Shauls of Tarsus, Aurelio di Tagaste or Ignazio di Loyola who have traveled the history of the Church.

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If we want to make a speech of pure spirituality it would be enough to ask: people who for thirty years have really been talking to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it is possible that they have the time and desire to do business, to build villas, to open hotels, to have husbands who are having fun with lovers and so on? Earlier I mentioned San Tommaso d'Aquino that he was about to incinerate his monumental QUESTION after having had only a small hint of what is the divine dimension. Too many other similar cases dot the history of the Church, including Saints and Saints who were to be forced to feed, because they were able to stay for days without eating and drinking. Above all, most of them, after having visions and apparitions, so after only having a little taste of eternal bliss, they almost always died shortly afterwards, other than to devote himself to business and the pursuit of the good life!

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Let's start upstream. Following the first alleged apparitions of the 1981 the first official declaration of the Episcopal Conference of the former Yugoslavia took place: after ten years of study the bishops unanimously decreed that this was not a supernatural event. Rather than intervene and immediately put up some posts, the Holy See let the phenomenon go on without any official response, assuming more and more the characteristics of a real parallel religion. Twenty years after that first response, iThe Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI established the 17 March 2010 an international Commission for the study of this phenomenon. In 2014, under the pontificate of Francis I, the Commission completed its studies and came to admit, among other things, that the self-styled seers had an ambiguous relationship with money and evident spiritual deficiencies had emerged from the study and analysis of their people:

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«The witnesses of the supernatural sign originally addressed to them, they now actually have a somewhat ambiguous relationship with money, But, rather than being on the side of immorality, it is located on the side of the personal structure, often devoid of solid discernment and consistent orientation » […] «They lacked a reliable and continuous spiritual guide, during these thirty years. There are, if anything, many signs of spiritual protagonism exhibited and of failed pastoral relationships "

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On one of the self-styled seers in particular the Commission points out:

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«It reaches its peak in the case of Ivan Dragicevic, whose continuous meetings and conferences on the phenomenon of Medjugorje seem to be his only work and support. He also lied several times and is also less credible in the way he talks about his experiences with the Gospa ».

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The Commission believed that the first seven appearances occurred in the early eighties of the twentieth century could be authentic, but not those of the subsequent ones that would have occurred over the past thirty years, rather highlighting the progressive trivialization of the content and form of the messages communicated daily. Having said that, it should be clarified: those who rejoice stating that the Church approved the first seven apparitions, or lie, or are ignorant. The opinion given by a merely consultative commission charged with the study, it is not a recognition by the Church, that has never been to date. For now, there has only been the outcome of a study on which the Church, through the supreme authority of the Supreme Pontiff, will have to express themselves.

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Some consortium of Medjugorean fanatics proceed illogically through the emotional element combined with the total upheaval of the facts, this is typical of fanatic and fanatic psychologies, giving commissions, or to precautionary or control decisions, rank of indisputable recognition by the Church. Not only - as we have just said -, the Study Commission did not recognize the authenticity of anything, because there is worse: when the Commission presented the outcome of its work to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this competent department judged the outcome of the work affected by superficiality and too accommodating towards the Medjugorie phenomenon. That counter-report from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was so severe that the Supreme Pontiff decided to seek further advice from a group of theologians whom he trusted. Said this: the leaders of certain fanatical chords, I am perhaps able to show an official identification document sealed by the Roman Pontiff? Because this is the central point on which i fanatic fanatics of the parallel religion medjugoriana supersede: where is the official act by which the Church, through the august person of the Roman Pontiff, declares the phenomenon authentic? Where is the document with the pronouncement of the Church: where?

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A quel point, the Medjugorian fanatic fanatics proceed to upset the facts and to confer, for example to administrative acts of pure control, rank of approval for the phenomenon. Let's see how, but first let's recap that: provided that the commission established by the Church he has never recognized these three decades of apparitions and continuous messages, however, not being in his powers; given that the commission had to embarrassingly admit the disturbing "relationship of the visionaries with the money"; given that the commission had to admit the poor spiritual formation of the pseudo-seers; given that the commission has denied any authenticity to apparitions and messages that have lasted for three decades; since the Church has never given any official recognition so far … that said, here is Paolo Brosio, following the typical pattern of fanaticization played on the total distortion of reality, always in the episode of 5 March attempted to pass the sending of an Archbishop to Medjugorie as apostolic visitor as an approval of the Supreme Pontiff Francis. But it is precisely a total distortion of the real data: S. AND. Mons. Henryk Franciszek Hoser, Emeritus Archbishop of Warsaw, he was sent by the Supreme Pontiff as an apostolic visitor to check what is happening in that place, as I replied with a short joke in the episode of Straight and Reverse the 5 March to Paolo Brosio who, however, ranging on this issue out of the real - and I hope it is for ignorant good faith -, tried to pass the Archbishop apostolic visitor as a "sign of approval". The reality is quite different: as soon as he arrived in Medjugorie, the apostolic visitor forbade first of all that any kind of direct or indirect reference to the messages given in a continuous stream by the homilies and sacred celebrations Madam to the pseudo seers, except for immediate suspension from the faculties of being able to exercise the sacred priestly ministry in that place of priests who had not adhered to that provision. Before these facts and much more: what certain fanatic and fanatic characters have to tell us, included Radio Maria directed by Father Livio Fanzaga, about our great lawyer, our powerful source of intercessions with God, “miserably escaped” when the coronavirus occurs? [about Father Livio Fanzaga see my previous article, WHO]. It should be obvious to even the most limited people of this world that my expression on “Madonna on the run” it all refers to self-styled seers, displaced and finally vanquished by an unexpected pandemic from Covid-19. But fanatics are such precisely because they refuse to open their eyes and to reason even in the face of the most evident elements that deny the object of their fanaticism, rather, as I have just shown, they take the elements of real denial, they turn them upside down, they falsify them and then even present them as approvals. Like this, of always, the psychologies of fanatics fallen into those forms of religious fundamentalism that make them completely devoid of logical sense and elementary critical and analytical spirit act, for which there is no reality but only their surreal parallel reality.

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My statement: «Thanks to the coronavirus the Madonna has escaped», it was a provocation that made blasphemy scream those who do not understand why they do not want to understand. The provocation is not an end in itself but is based on facts, not on malicious interpretations. Or as I briefly explained during that program 9 April: it had never happened in the history of the Church that an apparition protracted for over thirty years ceased in the full emergency of a full-blown pandemic. This was in fact the moment when this self-styled Madonna would announce to the false visionary Mirjana that she would no longer appear to her frequently, but only once a year. It is perhaps not a strange coincidence, especially considering that everything was not in the official message of the 18 March, but only one “confidence” addressed to the false seer, or how to say: a private dialogue between women?

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All the great lies set up by similar characters, always and strictly based on revelations, on a terrifying future to come, on terrible secrets that will sooner or later be revealed … in conclusion: everything is played on the magical-emotional element of fear. So the second episode of the now ridiculous saga of Gospa-Story it will be that of the phantom ten secrets that should be revealed after an extraordinary sign visible all over the world. And here I point out that to some subjects it is not very clear that time passes and, as they say, all the knots are then combed. In this regard, I remember that in 2001, to the self-styled seer Vicka, twenty years after the beginning of the apparitions and after the revelation of the secret trembles, was asked: "If you can't communicate the date of the secrets, you can at least tell us with a football metaphor, where are we from? match?». Vicka replied: «The second half has already started», thus implicitly giving the 2021 [see WHO]. Since January of 2018 the trumpet of the religion medjugoriana, Father Livio Fanzaga, warns that "times are near" and that "the revelation of secrets is imminent" [see WHO]. We will see shortly what these characters will invent, or what possible afterthought they will put in their mouths Madam, after being imprisoned by themselves in a castle of lies. They will do roughly like Jehovah's Witnesses who repeatedly announced the end of the world, then changing dates or saying that there had been a calculation error … Because this is where the team heads of the Gospa-Story: at the cabbala sir. One fact is certain: the pandemic stopped apparitions and messages and made this false postman escape after three decades. Someone wants to deny this obvious fact?

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I conclude by clarifying: if the Church tells me otherwise, I will tell Paolo Del Debbio and friends of the editorial staff of Straight and Reverse that I have a moral duty, as a Catholic and as a presbyter, to introduce myself to that same transmission to ask publicly for forgiveness from the pseudo-visionaries of Medjugorie and to Paolo Brosio. But only when the Church tells me I'm wrong, until this happens I will continue to call those dark characters “charlatans”, which in the etymological sense of the word means: barkers who take advantage of people's good faith and credulity, even for personal gain. So I will continue to indicate that of Medjugorie as one “false Madonna” that after three decades of chatter and messages of bleak triviality - not a few of which also contain doctrinal errors -, before an epidemic has escaped, rather than comfort and intercede for us, as it has always done throughout the history and economy of salvation Mater Dei.

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Phenomena of this kind, with the monsters that derive from it, they arise since the Church renounced the exercise of its authority, waiting for things to settle themselves, except, however, to fall, with authority destroyed, in forms of sinister authoritarianism, those with which both innocent and faithful servants are struck and beaten to death today, while charlatans as the self-styled seers of Medjugorie proliferate, they gain weight and cause immense damage to the People of God and to the very credibility of the Church Mater et Magistra.

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the Island of Patmos, 13 April 2020

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