The Medjugorje Deception

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In June 1981, six Croatian teens (well, one was 10) went up Podbrdo Hill near the village of Medjugorje in then rural Yugoslavia. When they came down, they said they had seen “the Gospa” (Croatian for Lady). The local bishop, Pavao Žanić, was initially open to their claims but...after he interviewed them, and learned the full story, he knew it was a complete hoax.

If you do an internet search for “Medjugorje” you will find that the pro-apparition websites, books, DVDs, and prayer groups, positively swamp any critical sources. Yet the official judgment of the Catholic Church is clear: Medjugorje is rejected (officially, non constat de supernaturalitate). And yet Church leadership all the way up to Pope Francis treats the decades-sprawling phenomenon with a combination of kid gloves playing hot potato, to mix a metaphor.

The six seers have parlayed their so-called apparitions into consistently high sources of income, and the pilgrimage industry still rakes in millions each year off of naive, usually low information Catholics seeking solace or answers at the place.

Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, wrote the first full length treatment of Medjugorje in 1988, and a book length account in 2010, which is why I invited him to give us an overview of the sprawling saga from the beginning. I do so with the intention of alerting my fellow Catholics who may be unaware (most are) of the truth about the Church’s discernment of this oddly toxic phenomenon.

The Truth About Medjugorje

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"Medjugorje," said the priest, "is the devil's plan for the pious.”

It wasn't surprising to hear a priest talk about Medjugorje this way. But it was surprising to hear a Franciscan talk this way, especially at Medjugorje itself. It just shows how things have changed over the years. This man had been there for over ten years and in that period of time had gone from believing that Medjugorje was a visitation of the Mother of God to where he now believed that it was a demonic hoax, and I was listening to the story of his spiritual odyssey.

"The whole point of this," he said gesturing toward St. James Church in one direction and all of the buildings, drug centers, souvenir shops,\"orphanages" in the other, "is to take a human oracle and promote it to the status of something divine, and then to excommunicate everyone who doesn't believe it. This is another Jesus"

In early 1997 Network 5 began an investigation that culminated in Visions on Demand, the first TV documentary that deals honestly with the financial and spiritual manipulation behind what promises to be one of the greatest spiritual hoaxes of the 20th century. Network 5 later joined forces with E. Michael Jones, an American journalist who has investigated Medjugorje for the last 10 years. What they came up with is the definitive explanation of how Medjugorje got started and the damage it has caused, based on footage which has never been seen before. The uproar has already started in England and now it's on its way over here.

Before one more family gets destroyed; before one more widow gets bilked; before someone else gets killed...

Saturday Night Trad (A Wide Ranging Interview With E. Michael Jones)

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E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, interviewed on Saturday Night Trad, on Catholic necons and American intelligence, the fall of the University of Notre Dame, Harvey Weinstein, the war against American Catholicism and other topics.

Visions on Demand: The Medjugorje Conspiracy

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"Medjugorje," said the priest, "is the devil's plan for the pious.”

It wasn't surprising to hear a priest talk about Medjugorje this way. But it was surprising to hear a Franciscan talk this way, especially at Medjugorje itself. It just shows how things have changed over the years. This man had been there for over ten years and in that period of time had gone from believing that Medjugorje was a visitation of the Mother of God to where he now believed that it was a demonic hoax, and I was listening to the story of his spiritual odyssey.

"The whole point of this," he said gesturing toward St. James Church in one direction and all of the buildings, drug centers, souvenir shops,\"orphanages" in the other, "is to take a human oracle and promote it to the status of something divine, and then to excommunicate everyone who doesn't believe it. This is another Jesus"

In early 1997 Network 5 began an investigation that culminated in Visions on Demand, the first TV documentary that deals honestly with the financial and spiritual manipulation behind what promises to be one of the greatest spiritual hoaxes of the 20th century. Network 5 later joined forces with E. Michael Jones, an American journalist who has investigated Medjugorje for the last 10 years. What they came up with is the definitive explanation of how Medjugorje got started and the damage it has caused, based on footage which has never been seen before. The uproar has already started in England and now it's on its way over here.

Before one more family gets destroyed; before one more widow gets bilked; before someone else gets killed...

Contraception, the Sexual Revolution, the Catholic Church and Medjugorje

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Also available as a video on BitChute.

After hearing this talk, the producer of a major Medjugorje video had a change of heart and is now devoting his efforts to exposing the fraud behind what he once promoted as true. This talk was also the basis of a day-long seminar on the dangers of private revelations, sponsored by the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, under Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz. This talk is the best explanation of what everyone thought was inexplicable.