Medjugorje: Great article to share with Roman Catholics

[Barbara]

Update : I took a look at Michael Davies' background and found this insightful comment which is food for thought for many in the modern era :

"First and foremost, at least in his mind, Michael Davies was a grade school teacher. Teaching was his first love and that remained his identity even years after he’d retired from it in 1992....

In a day and age when credentials and degrees and inflated titles define us more than virtue does, it says so much about Michael Davies that he wished the world to know, simply, that he was a teacher of children."

http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Davies/ ... 20Matt.htm

[Barbara]

A different update : there existed a monastery called Mejigorie near Kiev, Ukraine which was ancient and historic.
The name meant "Between the 2 Mountains" - or hills, over the Dnieper River.

But Catherine II, UNbless her heart, decided to turn the venerable 10th century religious foundation to secular use instead of restoring it as a monastery as would have been proper. It had been the spiritual center of Cossacks in the 1600s. But in 1786, Mejigorie was suppressed. Catherine II had arranged to visit the site, but on the very evening before her arrival, all buildings but the 2 Churches and belltower burned to ashes !! Unphased by this obvious sign of Heavenly disapproval of her plans, she merely changed her intended use of Mejigorie from an invalid hospital to a porcelain factory.

After many vicissitudes which do not concern us in this thread, a happy ending resulted [ at least up to the time of the Russian Revolution ].

Mejigorie saw new spiritual life as a convent, established by decree of the Synod in St Petersburg on April 8, 1894.

Here we see a triumph of monasticism in such a similarly-named location.

At Medjugorje, by contrast, all main critics are agreed that the prime villains of the hoax were some rogue Franciscan "monks".