Andrea JLast Updated: May 30th, 2025Church News, Featured Pilgrimages, Holy Land, Travel Tips, Upcoming Pilgrimages
Pilgrims have been traveling to the Holy Land to walk in the footsteps of Christ since the earliest days of the Church. Throughout that time, it has been customary to return home with a remembrance of the long and often difficult journey. We have shared previously about how some pilgrims would obtain a tattoo as … Read More
Ann VucicLast Updated: September 20th, 2024Church News, Medjugorje, Pope Francis
September 19, 2024 – vatican ruling on medjugorje My alarm clock awakened me at 4:27 am on Thursday morning, September 19, 2024. Blurry eyed, but wide awake and excited, I took my ipad to watch the live Vatican press conference about Medjugorje, starting at 4:30 am CST, on the Vatican YouTube channel. This was a … Read More
Ann VucicLast Updated: September 11th, 2020Church News, Medjugorje, Pope Francis
Timeline of the Church’s response to Medjugorje 1981: Apparitions of Medjugorje begin 1984: Local bishop, diocese of Mostar forms a commission to investigate the events in Medjugorje. 1986: Bishop submits a negative decision about Medjugorje to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF), which at the time was led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later, … Read More
Last week we began a two-part series with Fr. Leon Pereira, Chaplain to English-Speaking Pilgrims in Medjugorje. We looked at the Church’s current ruling on the Medjugorje apparitions, and Fr. commented on a quote from Archbishop Henrik Hoser – “The light far outweighs the shadows.” This week, we’ll turn our attention to the question, “Do … Read More
Recent events have lead many to speculate that the Vatican may be paving the way toward approval of Medjugorje as a site of Marian apparitions. On Thursday, May 31, 2018, the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, the Vatican announced that it was appointing recently-retired Archbishop Henryk Hoser as Special Apostolic Visitor to … Read More
