Church authorities have argued about the Medjugorje apparitions since they began. They sent psychiatrists and physicians to examine the seers, tested the children’s grasp of the catechism and ...

The Vatican’s doctrine office didn’t declare that the reported apparitions in Medjugorje were authentic or of supernatural origin.

However, unlike at the more well-known and established Catholic sanctuaries in Fatima, Portugal or Lourdes, France, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje were never declared authentic by the Vatican.

Medjugorje, the Vatican resolves doubts about the apparitions of the Madonna: the verdict after the Ruini Commission «Through the nihil obstat regarding a spiritual event, the faithful are ...

However, unlike at the more well-known and established Catholic sanctuaries in Fatima, Portugal or Lourdes, France, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje were never declared authentic by the Vatican.

However, unlike at the more well-known and established Catholic sanctuaries in Fatima, Portugal or Lourdes, France, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje were never declared authentic by the Vatican.