Medjugorje Apparitions: Psychosis or scam?

Legend, delusion or psychosis?

The alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje are based on very fragmentary evidence. The New Catholic Encyclopedia suggests that the apparitions of St. Dominic and the apparition to St. Simon Stock in 1251 they are just legends. This encyclopedia of the Catholic faith often points out that the basis for documenting the apparition of Guadalupe is also missing, in Mexico (1531), although this is certainly more credible than those of S. Domenico and S. Stock. Even Medjugorje has not even been accepted by the Vatican as the messages are anti-universalist (everyone is saved and all religions are the same) and chock full of necromancy (contacts with the deceased). And what's more, there are discrepancies between the testimonies of the six seers.

The Catholic Church also admits that most remain unverified apparitions, and they can probably be explained by natural origins. Some are intentionally fraudulent, while others are caused by some psychiatric illness. Modern psychiatry has argued that religious views are often the result of a psychological projection, hysteria, and / or hallucinations. While this is an anti-supernatural bias, no doubt there can be truth in these claims.

who, what interests us is not to ascertain on the scientific basis whether these views are true or false, what did the doctors of the commissions who analyzed the case say or something else, here what is important is to focus on the fact that, even if these apparitions were authentic, that is, of supernatural origins, what appears and speaks with the visionaries, it is not Maria.

The fact still remains, But, that what is happening in Medjugorje is very strange and smells so much of a good and good scam: this small remote and poor village of the former Yugoslavia, it has become a pilgrimage destination for Marian devotees from all over the world and its economy has certainly grown tremendously. There are countless stalls selling holy water and Our Lady's medals at stratospheric prices. Hotel, restaurants, a real tourism! And the behavior of the visionaries who behave like real stars, arriving in luxurious cars and walking away snubbing poor gullible people, who came all the way there to get a few words of comfort from them (the deities of Medjugorje), it is not a behavior that excludes fraud and human deception.

The Catholic Church will approve Medjugorje in the future?

It is very likely that it does, under pressure from the Marian faithful. The Catholic Church in order not to lose followers and not to upset such large masses of faithful, would do this and more. As he had to do for the friar of Petralcina, Father Pio, clearly disobedient and in disagreement with the Holy See, so much so that he was also excommunicated (there are Vatican documents that can be consulted dating back to the years 50 e 60 which attest to this fact as well as newspaper articles of the time that can be consulted in the archives). But in the years to follow, under pressure from the gullible people, had to retract (as it usually does) and canonize a saint who had little of a saint. And in the end he also ended up believing it.