Hi,

Something is not right. I looked at compared pictures of Fatima and Medjugorje. Hmmm, you know what…Our Lady of Fatima that didn’t appear on the oak tree in front of Jacinta and Francisco without Lucy. Because She wanted three children together, right but the so-called lady of Medjugorje always appears to each so-called visionary separately over 40,000 times….six children do not be together often.

I have heard the charge of disobedience to lawful church authority. The bishop of Mostar early on prohibited the visionaries from being in the parish church during their apparitions and they complied and have not violated that order since. The bishop prohibited parish sponsored pilgrimages to Medjugorje. None occurred until that order was recently lifted by the Vatican. Hardly sounds like disobedience to me.

This is sad-
The “seers” and their Franciscan manipulators have consistently maintained that during their “ecstasies” they are immobile and without communication with the outside world. A French journalist wished to test this claim, and while one “seer”, Vicka, purported to be in ecstasy, he made a stabbing movement towards her eyes with his fingers. Vicka gave a start and threw her head backwards. Fortunately, the entire incident was filmed. The girl left the room and returned a few minutes later with one of her charismatic mentors, an expelled Franciscan. She claimed that at the moment the journalist made the movement she was witnessing an apparition of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus in her arms, and the Child slipped. “I made a movement to stop Him from falling. That’s all.”

Back to the original post, I think it does this forum a disservice to post a video by a former science fiction author whose other projects included crop circles, wolf children, the Bermuda Triangle and Zombies as evidence. He identifies as a pantheist and stated in 2003 in Popular Science Magazine that "religion is the most malevolent and persistent of all mind viruses - we should get rid of it as quick as we can." Should he be our authority on the validity of a Marian apparition? We can do better if we are seeking the truth!