Unity Publishing - More Dangerous Than Any False Apparition

Rick Salbato's writing is in black font, mine is in red font.

COMPARISON

On May 25, 1984, the so-called "Virgin" commanded that her 2000th anniversary be celebrated on August 5th. Bishop Zanic forbid the request. The "Virgin" then demanded that the feast of her birthday be celebrated on the 5th of August instead of the 8th of September. What about the Feast of the Immaculate Conception? Will that have to be changed also?

God will not contradict Himself. Nor will a true seer contradict another true seer. Since Catherine Emmerich, Therese Neumann, Mary Agreda, and the Church have said that Mary was born on September 8th, what are we to make of this woman of Medjugorje?

In fact, Mirna of Damascus received four different apparitions on the eve of September 8th. One in that same year, 1984. On the following eve of September 8th, 1985, Christ said, "I am the creator. I created Her to give Me life..."

Interesting indeed that, if true, Mary would request a change to her birthdate. I have no comment on this one, except to point out that it has been claimed that the Bible also contradicts itself in many place and we must recognize that truth is complex. We were most likely told early in our schooling that water conducts electricity. ‘That’s why,’ declares the teacher, ‘you should be careful about water on laundry floors.’ Years later one discovers that water does not conduct electricity, it is only the impurities in water that allow conduction. Still later as one delves deeper into the truth, we discover that water does conduct electricity, it is just that it does not conduct it very much. Truth is indeed complex, and in the Bible God has entrusted us with spiritual truth in all its complexity.

We have in our possession a written statement by the Franciscan priest of Medjugorje, Father Slavko Barbaric, and signed by his translator, John T. Shindler. It contains many questions to be presented to the Gospa through the visionaries.

These are some of the questions and the answers by the Gospa (Virgin?):

Question 2. When does a baby receive a living soul?
Answer by Gospa: "Four and one half months."

Question 4. What about UFO’s? Are they true?
Answer by Gospa “Yes.”

Question 7. Where Adolf Hitler, Marshal Tito, and Pope Paul VI replaced by evil doubles during their lifetimes?
Answer by Gospa: “Yes. They were good men replaced by evil red doubles.

Question 8. Did you appear at Necedah, Wisconsin?
Answer by Gospa: “Yes. But no one listened, not the bad bishops of U.S.

The answer to Question 2 would legalize almost all abortions;

If Rick really has such an authentic document, why does he not scan it and put it online. We can find no corroboration for any of these statements. And these have never been brought up by Bishop Peric that I am aware of. Surely, he of all people would jump on these statements and the Vatican would most likely listen. Indeed if the Church had found anything contrary to Catholic teaching it would have put a stop to Medjugorje a long time ago. On the contrary, after 25 years, the Church has no objection to people travelling to Medjugorje on pilgrimage.

Rick talks a lot about "having in his possession" certain reports. Unfortunately, what Rick calls "reports" are little more than litanies of selective, slanted half-truths, which cannot be relied on. I mean Rick stated elsewhere in his article that Father Philip Pavich should be listened to as an accurate word on the Church's view on Medjugorje. From all accounts, Philip Pavich was known as "Grumpy" by his peers. He wrote a detraction circular on the Poem of the Man-God and was disillusioned by Medjugorje, renouncing it and casting aspersions on his Franciscan peers there. But Rick tries to pass him off as a impartial voice of the Church. To get the real voice of the Church on Medjugorje, Rick doesn't point to crystal clear statements directly from the Vatican. No, he tries to get everyone to listen to a disillusioned priest with a chip on his shoulder (about what I don't know). In the same way, his articles try to pass off directives and judgements of Bishops Zanic and Peric against Medjugorje as carrying weight and, indeed, as being representative of Church judgement, without telling everybody what the Vatican really thinks about the judgements of these Bishops of Mostar. Please click here to read what the Vatican thinks about the Bishops' opinions and what amounts to the clearest statement to date on the Medjugorje phenomenon.