The never-before-published Vatican document that reveals the findings of the investigation into Medjugorje.
In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI established an International Pontifical Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, with the task of examining in the strictest confidentiality what had been happening in Medjugorje since 1981.
For years, the Commission's conclusions remained secret. This volume finally makes the Final Report of the Vatican investigation accessible, offering an exceptional insight into the way the Church examined one of the most debated and controversial religious phenomena in contemporary Catholicism.
What really happened - and what continues to happen - in this small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Did the Gospa, as Our Lady is locally known, truly appear? Do the alleged apparitions still continue today? Who are the visionaries, and how credible are they? How do they live? What significance should be attributed to the ten secrets and to the countless messages said to come from the Virgin Mary?
The investigation involved theologians, Mariologists, psychologists, physicians and other internationally renowned experts, who spent years examining the alleged apparitions, the visionaries, the messages, and the extraordinary religious and pastoral phenomenon that developed around Medjugorje.
What did the Vatican Commission really discover? What conclusions did it reach about Medjugorje?
>DAVID MURGIA is a journalist, author, and member of the Pontifical International Marian Academy. Through his journalistic investigations, he has helped expose self-proclaimed visionaries and false mystics. The New York Times described him as a "formidable investigator of the sacred," while The Times called him an "expert in monitoring cults." He was the first journalist in the world to publish in full the Vatican's secret dossier on Medjugorje. He is the author of numerous books and publications on Marian apparitions, mysticism, and demonic phenomena. He teaches and is one of the organizers of the Course on "Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation," the only course of its kind in the world officially recognized by the Holy See, at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He lives in Rome. His blog is www.ilsegnodigiona.com